cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
myocarditis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myocardites
form: myocarditides
form: myocarditises
Etymology: From myocard(ium) + -itis.
Senses: topics: cardiology
medicine
pathology
sciences
hypernyms: cardiomyopathy
myocardiopathy
;
carditis
cardiopathy
coordinate_terms: endocarditis
pericarditis
pancarditis
perimyoendocarditis
glosses: Inflammation of the myocardium.
Derived terms: word: endomyocarditis
english: giant cell myocarditis
translation: giant cell myocarditis
word: GCM
word: perimyocarditis
word: postmyocarditis
alt: viral myocarditis
word: VM
polaron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polarons
Etymology: From polar + -on.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The object (a quasiparticle) that results when an electron (or hole) in the conduction band of a crystalline insulator or semiconductor polarizes the lattice in its vicinity.
Derived terms: antipolaron
bipolaron
intrapolaron
magnetopolaron
multipolaron
polaronic
detour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /ˈdiː.tɔː(ɹ)/
note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /ˈdiː.tʊə(ɹ)/
ipa: /dɪˈtʊə/
ipa: /dɪˈtɔː/
ipa: /ˈdi.toɹ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: detours
Etymology: Borrowed from French détour, from détourner (“turn away”).
Senses: examples: text: On the third day I made a detour westward to avoid the country of the Band-lu, as I did not care to be detained by a meeting with To-jo.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IX, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
text: Of course the Johnston swings around to engage the entire flotilla, and, despite taking several more hits, Johnston successfully forces away the first two ships, which leads to the entire squadron taking a detour to avoid the single pugnacious ship.
ref: 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 29:50 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022:
glosses: A diversion or deviation from one's original route.
glosses: An temporary alternative route available to motorists away from the usual route due to a closure for repairs, dealing with an accident, or some event rendering the usual route unusable.
Derived terms: equal detour point
Related terms: bypass
roundabout
detour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /ˈdiː.tɔː(ɹ)/
note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /ˈdiː.tʊə(ɹ)/
ipa: /dɪˈtʊə/
ipa: /dɪˈtɔː/
ipa: /ˈdi.toɹ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: detours
form: detouring
form: detoured
form: detoured
Etymology: Borrowed from French détour, from détourner (“turn away”).
Senses: examples: text: Petrelis detoured away from southern activities to visit Chicago and help draw attention to lesbian, gay and AIDS issues during the Illinois primary March 16.
ref: 1988 April 9, Elizabeth Pincus, “Freedom Ride Supports Southern Les/Gay Visibility”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
glosses: To make a detour.
glosses: To direct or send on a detour.
adeptness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adeptnesses
Etymology: From adept + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being adept.
adequacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adequacies
Senses: examples: text: His zeal is, of course, unquestionable; his adequacy, however, I doubt.
text: GREETINGS, adventurer! In honor of your adequacy, I bring you a gift from the Dunmer people!
ref: 2013, Kazerad, Aggy: Approach, in: Prequel -or- Making a Cat Cry: The Adventure (webcomic), November 22 2013
glosses: The quality of being sufficient, adequate or able to meet the needs.
Synonyms: word: adequacy
word: enoughness
word: sufficience
word: sufficiency
Derived terms: capital adequacy
delusion of adequacy
adequateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adequatenesses
Etymology: From adequate + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: adequacy
antonyms: inadequateness
inadequacy
glosses: The quality of being adequate, of meeting needs or expectations.
adhesiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adhesivenesses
Etymology: From adhesive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the quality of being, or the degree to which a thing is, adhesive
Derived terms: bioadhesiveness
cytoadhesiveness
hyperadhesiveness
thermoadhesiveness
adjacency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdʒeɪsənsi/
Forms: form: adjacencies
Senses: examples: text: at that point the Needle conforms unto the true Meridian, and is not distracted by the vicinity of Adjacencies.
ref: 1672, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
text: “With the adjacencies for victims whose families wish them to be listed together,[…], this is an approach that I hope will be acceptable to the great majority of the families affected,” he said afterward.
ref: 2007 January 11, David W. Dunlap, “Still, the Question of Displaying the Names of 9/11”, in New York Times:
text: X gained a second wind last year when Mr. Trump won the election. Some advertisers, courted by Ms. Yaccarino, returned to the platform partly because of Mr. Musk’s adjacency to the president.
ref: 2025 July 9, Mike Isaac, Kate Conger, “X CEO Linda Yaccarino Says She Is Leaving Elon Musk’s Platform”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch.
examples: text: The maker of film commercials should be especially aware of the film standards published by the networks and adhere to them carefully, as the effectiveness of his commercial is greatly affected by its adjacencies. He may well give serious thought in his production planning to the problem caused by adjacent film which, in most cases, will not be under his control.
ref: 2023, H. W. Coleman, Colour Television: Techniques, Business, Impact:
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: The programming directly before or after a commercial.
Derived terms: adjacency list
adjacency matrix
adjacency pair
biadjacency
coadjacency
nonadjacency
center field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The part of a baseball field which is beyond the infield and straight ahead left if you stand on home plate and face the pitcher.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The defensive position in the outfield in the middle, typically played by a player that can run fast.
examples: text: I'd be happy to play center field on this proposal. I can cover a lot of ground.
glosses: A central role in some activity that requires speed.
Derived terms: center fielder
right field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: right fields
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The part of a baseball field which is beyond the infield and to your right if you stand on home plate and face the pitcher.
examples: text: He's got a cannon out in right field.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The defensive position in the outfield to the right, typically played by a player who can throw well.
catcher's mitt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catcher's mitts
form: catchers' mitts
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hypernyms: baseball mitt
baseball glove
glosses: A large protective glove used by a catcher when playing baseball.
synonyms: rubber baby buggy bumper
coordinate_terms: rubber
glosses: A contraceptive diaphragm.
atrioventricular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From atrio- + ventricular.
Senses: examples: text: atrioventricular block; atrioventricular node; atrioventricular septum
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: AV
coordinate_terms: ventriculoatrial[Appendix:Glossary#broad|broadly]] synonymous; precisely differentiated regarding conduction pathways>
glosses: Of the spatial relationship between the ventricles and the atria of the heart.
Derived terms: atrioventricular bundle
atrioventricular valve
helicon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛlɪkɒn/
ipa: /ˈhɛlɪkən/
ipa: /ˈhɛlɪkɑn/
ipa: /ˈhɛlɪkən/
Forms: form: helicons
Etymology: Probably from Ancient Greek ἕλῐξ (hélĭx) + -on, after bombardon.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
coordinate_terms: sousaphone
tuba
glosses: A large tuba whose coils fit around the player's shoulders.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A low-frequency electromagnetic wave observed in various plasmas.
Derived terms: heliconical
heliconist
Related terms: helical
helix
Ancien Régime
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Ancien Régime
Etymology: Borrowed from French Ancien Régime, from ancien (“former”) + régime (“rule, order”). The word first appeared in English in print in 1794.
Senses: glosses: The aristocratic social and political system established in France under the Valois and Bourbon dynasties, overthrown by the French Revolution of 1789.
examples: text: the Ancien Régime of Switzerland (1648–1798)
glosses: Any other political system overthrown in the wake of the French Revolution.
anciens régimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ancien régime
ancien régime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: approximately
enpr: äɴsiăɴ ʀézhim
ipa: [ɑ̃siæ̃ ʁeʒim]
ipa: /ɑn.sjɛn ɹeɪˈʒim/
Forms: form: anciens régimes
Etymology: From French ancien régime (“former rule, former order”); the term first appeared in English print in 1794.
Senses: topics: government
politics
synonyms: old regime
glosses: A system of government long since supplanted by another, particularly a state of feudalism with an absolute monarchy supported by the doctrine of divine right with the explicit consent of an established church.
hors d'oeuvre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔːˈdɜːv/
ipa: /ˌɔɹˈdɝv/
Forms: form: hors d'oeuvre
form: hors d'oeuvres
form: hors-d'oeuvre
form: hors d'œuvre
form: hors-d'œuvre
Etymology: Borrowed from the French hors-d'œuvre.
Senses: topics: food
lifestyle
glosses: A small, light, and usually savory first course in a meal.
glosses: Anything of secondary concern; not the primary thing.
glosses: Something unusual or extraordinary.
Synonyms: apéritif
appetizer
entrée
starter
tapa
Related terms: canapé
horse's doovers
SSS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Social Security System.
glosses: Selective Service System.
SSS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of super soft source.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of sick sinus syndrome.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of subclavian steal syndrome.
glosses: Initialism of shit, shower, shave.
topics: art
arts
computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of subsurface scattering.
salinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈlɪnɪti/
ipa: /səˈlɪnɪti/
ipa: [səˈlɪnɪɾi]
Forms: form: salinities
Senses: glosses: The quality of being saline.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The concentration of salt in a solution.
Synonyms: salineness
saltiness
Derived terms: Messinian salinity crisis
échappée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: échappées
Senses: glosses: An escape tone.
glosses: Alternative form of échappé (“ballet movement”).
tantalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tantalizing
form: most tantalizing
Senses: examples: text: ...then it was that monomaniac Ahab, furious with this tantalizing vicinity of his foe, which placed him all alive and helpless in the very jaws he hated; frenzied with all this, he seized the long bone with his naked hands, and wildly strove to wrench it from its gripe.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, chapter 133, in Moby Dick:
text: The tantalising theory that a fifth force of nature could exist has been given a boost thanks to unexpected wobbling by a subatomic particle, physicists have revealed.
ref: 2023 August 11, Nicola Davis, “Scientists may be on brink of discovering fifth force of nature”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Teasing; tempting, especially that which is beyond reach.
Derived terms: tantalizingly
tantalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tantalize
tantalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tantalizings
Senses: examples: text: […] my resources against depressing thoughts and languor, amid the tantalizings of society […]
ref: 1848, Spalding Club, Publications, number 18, Aberdeen, page 488:
glosses: teasing temptation
monomaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɒnəʊˈmeɪnɪæk/
ipa: /ˌmɑnoʊˈmeɪnɪæk/
rhymes: -eɪniæk
Forms: form: monomaniacs
Senses: examples: text: To talk nonsense, or poetry, or the dash between the two, in a tone of profound sincerity, and to enunciate solemn discordances with received opinion so seriously as to convey the impression of a spiritual insight, is the peculiar gift by which monomaniacs, having first persuaded themselves, contrive to influence their neighbours, and through them to make conquest of a good half of the world, for good or for ill.
ref: 1859, George Meredith, chapter 15, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:
text: Harry knew now that the old man was crazy, or at least a monomaniac, and, though he seemed harmless enough, it was of course possible that he might be dangerous.
ref: 1873, Horatio Alger, chapter X, in Bound to Rise:
text: He had never yet been able to determine whether the old man was a consummate hypocrite or a religious monomaniac.
ref: 1890, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 44, in The Firm of Girdlestone:
synonyms: fanatic
glosses: A person who is obsessed with a single thing, to the exclusion of other concerns.
monomaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɒnəʊˈmeɪnɪæk/
ipa: /ˌmɑnoʊˈmeɪnɪæk/
rhymes: -eɪniæk
Senses: examples: text: ...then it was that monomaniac Ahab, furious with this tantalizing vicinity of his foe, which placed him all alive and helpless in the very jaws he hated; frenzied with all this, he seized the long bone with his naked hands, and wildly strove to wrench it from its gripe.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 133, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: Focused on one thing above all others.
Related terms: monomania
monomaniacal
monomaniacally
lignify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪɡnɪfaɪ/
Forms: form: lignifies
form: lignifying
form: lignified
form: lignified
Etymology: From Latin līgnum (“wood”) + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To become wood.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: To develop woody tissue as a result of incrustation of lignin during secondary growth.
glosses: To become rigid or fixed, like something made of wood.
glosses: To turn into wood; to make ligneous.
Derived terms: nonlignified
unlignified
Related terms: lignification
bathy-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: batho-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βαθύς (bathús, “deep”).
Senses: glosses: deep, especially deep sea
Derived terms: bathyal
Bathybius
bathyscaphe
bathysphere
isobathytherm
isobathythermic
convolute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒnvəˈluːt/
ipa: /ˌkɑːnvəˈluːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: convolutes
form: convoluting
form: convoluted
form: convoluted
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin convolūtum, past participle of convolvere (“to roll together”).
Senses: glosses: To make unnecessarily complex.
glosses: To fold or coil into numerous overlapping layers.
glosses: To confuse, mix up (something) with something else.
Derived terms: convoluted
convolutive
deconvolute
subconvolute
Related terms: convolution
convolve
convolute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒnvəˈluːt/
ipa: /ˌkɑːnvəˈluːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: more convolute
form: most convolute
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin convolūtum, past participle of convolvere (“to roll together”).
Senses: glosses: Convoluted.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
hypernyms: imbricate
glosses: Coiled such that one edge is inside, and one outside the coil, giving a spiral effect in cross section.
raw_tags: of a leaf
disparately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disparately
form: most disparately
Etymology: From disparate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The groups were formed intentionally disparately.
glosses: In a disparate manner.
Related terms: disparateness
disparity
disparateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disparatenesses
Etymology: From disparate + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The disparateness of our team was truly our strength.
glosses: the degree to which a thing is disparate
Related terms: disparately
disparity
beno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Modification of Spanish vino (“wine”).
Senses: examples: text: In cases of continuous intoxication it results in dysentery, fevers, insanity, and drinking beno is the cause of many deaths.
ref: 1900, Harper’s History of the War in the Philippines, page 315:
text: I had some beno in my canteen and I took a few nips to steady me.
ref: 1925, Cosmopolitan, page 18:
text: Lounging around village shops watching the girls and drinking beno, a potent alcoholic beverage, helped some of the soldiers overcome their boredom.
ref: 1975, Willard B. Gatewood, Jr., Black Americans and the White Man’s Burden, 1898-1903, page 270:
text: He must have been drinking beno for he took a header, and as he went over the boat dipped considerably and of course soaked part of us.
ref: 2006, The Journals, page 53:
glosses: An alcoholic drink distilled from the fermented sap of palm trees, originating from the Philippines.
batho-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: bathy-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βαθύς (bathús, “deep”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bathy-.
Derived terms: batholith
bathometer
bathophobia
bathos
on the defensive
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Last year, despite winning 34 of the legislature’s 57 seats with 47 per cent of the popular vote, the NDP was on the defensive almost from the start.
ref: 1982 December 11, Frances Russell, “Economic performance buoys Pawley’s position”, in The Vancouver Sun (The Weekend Sun), Vancouver, BC, page A6:
glosses: Prepared to defend or protect against criticism, attack or aggression.
examples: text: Brazil's greater quality and assurance in possession meant England spent much of the game on the defensive.
ref: 2017 November 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0-0 Brazil”, in BBC News:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: defending; playing a defensive game
Related terms: initiative
tempo
one step ahead
placatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more placatingly
form: most placatingly
Etymology: From placating + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Her title is always on the lips of the crew […] yet she herself is unseen, locked away in her quarters. ‘Working,’ the stewards say, placatingly.
ref: 2024, Sarah Brooks, The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands, Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, pages 95-96:
glosses: In a manner that serves to placate.
waspishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more waspishly
form: most waspishly
Etymology: From waspish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a waspish manner.
waspish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒs.pɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈwɑ.spɪʃ/
Forms: form: more waspish
form: most waspish
Etymology: From wasp + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Suggestive of the behaviour of a wasp.
examples: text: Svveet Hony-Comb, don't be ſo VVaſpiſh: […]
ref: 1702, [Colley] Cibber, She Wou’d, and She Wou’d Not, or The Kind Impostor. A Comedy. […], London: […] William Turner […], and John Nutt, […], published 1703, →OCLC, Act III, page 30:
text: Always, he radiated an air of soigné self-confidence: he could be amiable in his opinions or waspish, but he never betrayed a flicker of doubt about what he thought.
ref: 1997, Henry Louis Gates Jr., “The Passing of Anatole Broyard”, in Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man, New York: Random House, page 181:
glosses: Spiteful or irascible.
Synonyms: sense: spiteful or irascible
word: irascible
sense: spiteful or irascible
word: spiteful
salinization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salinizations
Etymology: From saline + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act of salinizing, or the state of being salinized.
glosses: The addition of salt or brine.
Related terms: salination
sustainably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /səˈsteɪ.nə.bli/
/səˈsteɪ.nə.blɪ/
Forms: form: more sustainably
form: most sustainably
Etymology: From sustainable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: If you’re trying to live sustainably in 2024, there are tons of easy swaps that can make your life more environmentally friendly.
ref: 2020 October 22, Kai Burkhardt, “31 eco-friendly products to live sustainably in 2024”, in CNN:
text: “Unlike other platforms, we store your files for as long as you need them, so it is crucial that we manage our storage sustainably. If you need more upload capacity, Nitro Basic offers a 50MB limit, and Nitro gives you up to 500 MB, so you have options that fit your needs,” the company said on its official support page.
ref: 2024 September 4, Anurag Singh, “Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive””, in Dexerto:
glosses: In a sustainable manner.
disproportionately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪs.pɹəˌpɔɹ.ʃən.ət.li/
Forms: form: more disproportionately
form: most disproportionately
Etymology: From disproportionate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Capitalizing on the restive mood, Mr. Farage, the U.K. Independence Party leader, took out an advertisement in The Daily Telegraph this week inviting unhappy Tories to defect. In it Mr. Farage sniped that the Cameron government — made up disproportionately of career politicians who graduated from Eton and Oxbridge — was “run by a bunch of college kids, none of whom have ever had a proper job in their lives.”
ref: 2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, “British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party”, in New York Times, retrieved 29 May 2013:
glosses: in a disproportionate manner
overwhelmingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊ.vəˈwɛl.mɪŋ.lɪ/
Forms: form: more overwhelmingly
form: most overwhelmingly
Etymology: From overwhelming + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Gratifying as it is to read such editorials even in the press which supports Mr. Marples' party—and to learn that the G.N. Line's London suburban electrification is at last being given a cost-benefit analysis of the kind which overwhelmingly justified the L.T. Victoria Line [...] but years later than need have been—[...].
ref: 1963 June, “Second thoughts on Beeching”, in Modern Railways, page 361:
text: The Conan O’Brien-penned half-hour has the capacity to rip our collective hearts out the way the cute, funny bad girl next door does to Bart when she reveals that her new boyfriend is Jimbo Jones, but the show keeps shying away from genuine emotion in favor of jokes that, while overwhelmingly funny, detract from the poignancy and the emotional intimacy of the episode.
ref: 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: [F]rom the perspective of traditional linguistic landscapes thought, such an overwhelmingly English landscape would normally be considered to exert a negative effect on the vitality and feelings of worth of other languages within this specific multilingual milieu.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 5:
glosses: In an overwhelming manner; very greatly or intensely.
examples: text: Studies on homeless income find that the typical “career panhandler” who dedicates his time overwhelmingly to begging can make between $600 and $1,500 a month.
ref: 2012, Arthur Gillard, Homelessness, page 38:
text: Those recurrent noises in Italy about a move to Internazionale have resurfaced this week. It seems overwhelmingly likely Conte will stay, pay rise pending. But it is a feat of rare political skill to have made himself so unusually vital to the current success.
ref: 2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Mostly; predominantly; almost completely.
Related terms: extent
indignantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more indignantly
form: most indignantly
Etymology: From indignant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: When Samael saw that God had enlightened Adam, he yelled indignantly.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 14:
glosses: In an indignant manner.
inordinately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inordinately
form: most inordinately
Etymology: From inordinate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Every being, which during its natural lifetime produces several eggs or seeds, must suffer destruction during some period of its life, and during some season or occasional year, otherwise, on the principle of geometrical increase, its numbers would quickly become so inordinately great that no country could support the product.
ref: 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species:
text: And then she giggles, inordinately pleased by her own cleverness.
ref: 2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 173:
text: The emphasis on boosting “meaningful social interactions” between friends and family meant that the feed leant towards reshared material, which was often misinformed and toxic. “Misinformation, toxicity and violent content are inordinately prevalent among reshares,” said internal research.
ref: 2021 October 25, Dan Milmo, “Facebook revelations: what is in cache of internal documents?”, in The Guardian:
text: They’d [nucelar reactors] become inordinately expensive to build and maintain, in any case, especially compared to solar and wind installations.
ref: 2022 December 15, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian:
glosses: In an inordinate manner.
polyacetal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyacetals
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a polyether derived from an aldehyde or ketone and containing -O-R-O- groups in the main chain; especially polyoxymethylene derived from formaldehyde
polyomavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyomaviruses
Etymology: From polyoma + virus.
Senses: glosses: Any of the papovaviruses, in family Polyomaviridae, that induce a wide variety of tumours in newborn animals.
Derived terms: BK polyomavirus
papovavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papovaviruses
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: Any of the former family Papovaviridae, now split into the Papillomaviridae and Polyomaviridae families, of viruses that cause papillomas or polyomas in animals.
posttraumatic stress disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: posttraumatic stress disorders
Senses: examples: text: [Elliott] Taub wants “a monetary settlement to each nurse the sum of which is to be agreed upon and paid, commensurate with each nurse’s physical and psychological injuries, pain and suffering, and particularly posttraumatic stress disorders.[”]
ref: 2012 October 3, Carl Campanile, “Hosp duo’s demand of Kennedy”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2018:
glosses: Alternative spelling of post-traumatic stress disorder.
potentiometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˌtɛn(t)ʃiˈɒmɪtə/
ipa: /pəˌtɛn(t)ʃiˈɑmɪtəɹ/
rhymes: -ɒmɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: potentiometers
form: potentiometre
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A user-adjustable three-terminal variable resistor that can be used as a voltage divider.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An instrument that measures a voltage by opposing it with a precise fraction of a known voltage, and without drawing current from the unknown source.
Related terms: pot
potentiometry
pontile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin pontilis (“relating to a bridge”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the pons.
Derived terms: cerebellopontile
sona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sonas
Senses: examples: text: Especially interesting in this regard are furries with more than one fursona. […] Consider, for instance, how Muse describes his two fursonas: My two current sonas are a bat and a rabbit.
ref: 2020, Kathy Merlock Jackson, Kathy Shepherd Stolley, Lisa Lyon Payne, Animals and Ourselves: Essays on Connections and Blurred Boundaries, McFarland, →ISBN:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Clipping of fursona.
sulfurated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sulphurated
Senses: related: word: sulphurated
word: sulfuretted
word: sulfureted
word: sulphuretted
word: sulphureted
synonyms: sulfurized
sulphurized
glosses: Treated or combined with sulfur.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Modified by the addition of sulfide bonds.
spere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speres
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: The fixed structure between the great hall and the screens passage in an English medieval timber house.
sulfur candle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfur candles
form: sulphur candle
Senses: glosses: A candle-shaped device that emits sulfur dioxide when burnt; used to fumigate rooms
inkstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inkstones
Etymology: From ink + stone.
Senses: examples: text: He turns to the inkstone and picks up by the handles the two inkballs, rolling the leather facings together to freshen the ink. […] As the pressman returns the inkballs to the inkstone, the journeyman closes the frisket and tympan.
ref: 2000, Richard L. Saunders, Printing in Deseret:
glosses: A stone mortar used for grinding and holding ink in the East Asian art and calligraphy tradition.
odeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊdɪən/
Forms: form: odea
form: odeons
form: odeion
form: odeum
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ᾠδεῖον (ōideîon), from ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).
Senses: examples: text: The other building type similar to theatres, although smaller and generally roofed, was the odeon. Unlike theatres and amphitheatres, odea were not built in all of the larger Roman towns, although they became more common in the second century ad.
ref: 1986, John H. Humphrey, Roman Circuses: Arenas for Chariot Racing, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 3:
text: However, the significance of this transformation should not be overstated: it was not converted in to a church until the 6th c., and political meetings are attested in the nearby odeon, from late acclamations. Sagalassos is in fact the only eastern bouleuterion to show decay in the 5th c. Other examples are known that are generically dated to Late Antiquity: from Aizanoi and Ptolemais, both with bouleuteria-odea converted to aquatic spectacles, from Selge, where the building was converted into a church, and from Seleuceia-Lyrbe, where the building seems to have been transformed into a row of shops.
ref: 2021, Luke Lavan, Public Space in the Late Antique City, Brill, →ISBN, page 310:
text: Based on its small size, the excavators have suggested it may have been an odeon with a seating capacity of between 150 and 200 people; see Uziel, Lieberman, and Solomon (2019, 245–48). Odea were, initially at least, designed for small-scale concerts and recitals; but this distinction blurred over time and varied depending upon the size and resources of individual cities.
ref: 2023, Courtney J. P. Friesen, Acting Gods, Playing Heroes, and the Interaction between Judaism, Christianity, and Greek Drama in the Early Common Era, Routledge, →ISBN, page 30:
glosses: An ancient Greek or Roman building used for performances of music and poetry.
glosses: A theatre or concert hall.
Derived terms: melodeon
Nickelodeon
nickelodeon
odeum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odeums
form: odea
Etymology: Partly from Middle French odéum and partly from Latin ōdēum.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of odeon.
planarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pləˈnɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /pləˈnɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: planarians
Etymology: From translingual Planaria (genus) (from Late Latin plānārius (“lying on a plane”), from Latin plānum) + -an.
Senses: glosses: Any of various flatworms of the order Tricladida living in marine, freshwater, or terrestrial environments.
Related terms: planar
Planariidae
wha
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɑ/
ipa: /wʌ/
rhymes: -ɑ
rhymes: -ʌ
Forms: form: whuh
form: wuh
Senses: examples: text: Wha? Speak up, I can't hear you!
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of what.
Derived terms: bwuh
hubba-wha
say wha
wha gwan
Related terms: huh
cacophemism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cacophemisms
Etymology: From Latin cacophemia + -ism.
Senses: glosses: dysphemism
katabatic wind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: katabatic winds
Senses: topics: climatology
natural-sciences
glosses: A drainage wind or a fall wind: a wind, such as the bora or Bohemian wind, which moves high density air from a higher elevation down an incline, due to the force of gravity.
Related terms: foehn
chinook
bergwind
Dadaist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːdɑːɪst/
Forms: form: Dadaists
form: dadaist
Etymology: From Dada + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: To the world at large, relativity seemed to pull the rug out from under perceived reality. And for many advanced thinkers of the 1920s, from Dadaists to Cubists to Freudians, that was a fitting credo, reflecting what science historian David Cassidy calls "the incomprehensiveness of the contemporary scene--the fall of monarchies, the upheaval of the social order, indeed, all the turbulence of the 20th century."
ref: 1999 December 27, Frederic Golden, “Albert Einstein (1879-1955): Person of the century”, in CNN:
glosses: An artist or writer who practiced Dada.
Dadaist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːdɑːɪst/
Forms: form: dadaist
Etymology: From Dada + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Breton's Surrealist movement transformed Dadaist despair -- at both the war and the technologies that had led to it -- into a constructive assault on social and sexual norms.
ref: 2014 October 30, Ara Merjian, “How World War I gave birth to the modern”, in CNN:
glosses: In the style of Dada.
lapse rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lapse rates
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The rate of change in an atmospheric variable, especially temperature, with increase of height.
Derived terms: adiabatic lapse rate
dadaist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dadaists
Senses: examples: text: In 1976 and 1977, and the years to follow, as symbolically remade by the Sex Pistols, it was, perhaps, dadaists, lettrists, situationists, and various medieval heretics.
ref: 1989, Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published 2009:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Dadaist.
dadaist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Dadaist.
Derived terms: dadaistic
analogue watch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: analogue watches
Etymology: By adjectival collocation, forming a retronym for watch, coined after the invention of the digital watch to refer specifically to the type of watch existing before then.
Senses: related: word: analog watch
hypernyms: watch
<
timepiece
<
device#Noun
coordinate_terms: digital watch
;
analogue clock#Noun
analog clock#Noun
glosses: A watch (wristwatch or pocket watch) whose watch face displays time by means of a dial and hands (a traditional clock face).
Datiwuy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An aboriginal people from Arnhem Land, Australia.
Datiwuy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The dialect of Dhuwal spoken by this people.
digital watch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digital watches
Senses: examples: text: Her mom bought her a digital watch as a birthday gift.
text: Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
ref: 1979, Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
hypernyms: watch
<
timepiece
<
device#Noun
coordinate_terms: analogue watch
analog watch
;
digital clock#Noun
glosses: A watch (wristwatch or pocket watch), usually electronic, whose watch face displays time in the form of numbers (a digital display, rather than by a dial and hands (traditional clock face).
Dhuwal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Duwal.
Duwal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dhuwal
Senses: glosses: A group of aboriginal peoples of Northern Territory, Australia.
Duwal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dhuwal
Senses: glosses: A group of languages spoken by these people.
analog watch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: analog watches
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of analogue watch.
Davidian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈvɪdɪən/
Etymology: From David + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Davidic
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the asteroid (511) Davida.
Davidian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈvɪdɪən/
Forms: form: Davidians
Etymology: From David + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A member of a particular offshoot of the Seventh-day Adventists.
Derived terms: Branch Davidian
Davidian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈvɪdɪən/
Forms: form: Davidians
form: Davidyan
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Դավթյան (Davtʻyan). Doublet of Davtyan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian, equivalent to English Davidson.
black-and-white television
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black-and-white televisions
Etymology: Retronym for television, coined after the invention of colour television to refer specifically to the type of television existing before then.
Senses: glosses: A monochrome system of transmitting and receiving television signals.
glosses: A television set that displays only monochrome images.
colour television
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colour televisions
form: color television
Senses: glosses: A colour system of transmitting and receiving television signals.
glosses: A television set that displays images in colour.
Synonyms: topics: colour
color
colour
color
word: television in colour
topics: colour
color
word: colour television set
micrometeorology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + meteorology.
Senses: glosses: The portion of meteorology dealing with the observation and explanation of smallscale weather and weather forecasting for a local area up to several kilometers in diameter.
Derived terms: biomicrometeorology
ethic dative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethic datives
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of ethical dative.
Sikhs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːks/
rhymes: -iːks
homophone: seeks
Senses: glosses: plural of Sikh
daycoach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daycoaches
Etymology: From day + coach.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A normal railway car with seats, but no sleeping arrangements.
Diyari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdiːjɑːɹiː/
/ˈdɪəɹiː/
Senses: glosses: A Karnic language of Australia.
Karnic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A group of closely related Pama-Nyungan language of eastern central Australia; including Diyari and Pitta-Pitta.
dearrest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dearrests
form: dearresting
form: dearrested
form: dearrested
form: de-arrest
Etymology: From de- + arrest.
Senses: examples: text: Around midday, a 28-year-old local man was briefly arrested after he came close to the prime minister's group who had just left the Civic Hall in Leeds. No threats were made, and after the man's details were checked, he was de-arrested and allowed on his way.
ref: 2014 October 27, BBC, “Jogger in PM security alert had 'no idea' what happened”, in BBC News:
text: There is a question mark over how disruptive that was, in the great scheme of things, but it was enough for the police to arrest and handcuff him, later to de-arrest him on the understanding that he would be questioned in the future.
ref: 2022 September 12, Zoe Williams, “Why are people getting arrested in Britain for being republicans?”, in The Guardian:
text: During the main pro-Palestinian protest march, a further man was arrested for assault during an altercation between protesters and counter protesters in order to prevent a breach of the peace. After officers fully reviewed footage provided of the incident he was later de-arrested.
ref: 2024 March 9, Metropolitan Police, “Update on Met public order policing on 9 March”, in Policing operation, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2024:
synonyms: disarrest
glosses: To release (a person) from arrest.
spinel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɪˈnɛl/
ipa: /ˈspɪn.əl/
rhymes: -ɛl
rhymes: -ɪnəl
Forms: form: spinels
form: spinelle
Etymology: French spinelle, perhaps from Latin spina (“a thorn, a prickle”), in allusion to its pointed crystals.
Senses: examples: text: Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)
ref: 2012 March 24, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2012, page 128:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several hard minerals of cubic symmetry that are mixed oxides of magnesium and aluminium and are used as gemstones of various colours.
qualifier: solid state chemistry
glosses: Any crystalline material, not necessarily an oxide, that possesses the same crystal structure as this mineral.
Derived terms: ruby spinel
selenospinel
sulfospinel
Related terms: ruby
spinel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɪˈnɛl/
ipa: /ˈspɪn.əl/
rhymes: -ɛl
rhymes: -ɪnəl
Forms: form: spinels
Etymology: From Middle English spinel, from Old English spinel (“spindle; the amount of yard on a spindle”), whence also the usual modern form, English spindle.
Senses: examples: text: […] raised the price of that staple of yarn (of one Spinel in the pound weight) from 23d. to 26d. per Spinel.
ref: 1726, Lindsay, pamphlet, quoted in 1920, John Horner, The Linen Trade of Europe During the Spinning-wheel Period, page 269
text: 339, 612 yards of dimities, muslinets, jaconets, and booked muslins, from rod. to 20s. per yard, and, 4000. spinels of thread and yarn, were bleached by him in 1791, and 45 people were employed in the work.
ref: 1795, Sir John Sinclair, The Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn Up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes. By Sir John Sinclair, ..., page 70:
text: ... that is fit for any hundred of the reed; and like- wise the number of right telled yarn in spinels, slips, and cuts, that will be sufficient to make any number of ells from 1 to 60, subject, and merely consisted of tables or ready[…]
ref: 1876, English Mechanic and Mirror of Science and Art, page 417:
glosses: Spindle; the amount of yarn that fits on a spindle.
legator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: legators
Etymology: From Latin lēgātor (“testator”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A testator.
glosses: A donor.
NEER
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of nominal effective exchange rate.
Related terms: REER
REER
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: REERs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of real effective exchange rate.
Related terms: NEER
play fight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: play fights
form: play-fight
Senses: glosses: An unrefereed contest in which participants try to dominate each other without inflicting injury.
play fight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays fight
form: playing fight
form: played fight
form: played fight
form: play-fight
Senses: glosses: To engage in such a contest; to horseplay.
pillow fight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪləʊ ˌfaɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɪloʊ ˌfaɪt/
Forms: form: pillow fights
Senses: glosses: A play fight that involves hitting others with pillows.
pillow fight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪləʊ ˌfaɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɪloʊ ˌfaɪt/
Forms: form: pillow fights
form: pillow fighting
form: pillow fought
form: pillow fought
Senses: glosses: To participate in a pillow fight.
BU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Baylor University.
glosses: Initialism of Boston University.
glosses: Initialism of Bournemouth University.
BU
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Initialism of broken up: referring to the scrapping of a decommissioned ship.
qualifier: numismatic slang
glosses: Initialism of brilliant uncirculated.
ten pound tourist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ten pound tourists
form: ten-pound tourist
Etymology: From ten + pound (“unit of currency”) + tourist.
An allusion to the immigrant′s contribution (in sterling) paid for passage to Australia under an assisted immigration scheme, the remainder being paid by the Australian government. The scheme operated from 1946 to 1982; in 1973 the immigrant contribution was increased to £75.
The term tourist refers to the obligation (only) for participants to remain in Australia for two years; some elected to return after this time.
Senses: examples: text: In 1971 my own (Anglo-Celtic) parents traveled from the “Mother country” (the United Kingdom) as assisted immigrants, among the last of the “ten-pound tourists.” My brother and I traveled free (see Appleyard et al. 1988).
ref: 2003, Ian Maxwell, Notes: Phat Beats, Dope Rhymes: Hip Hop Down Under Comin′ Upper, page 251:
text: Billy′s parents were ‘ten pound tourists’, arriving in Australia in 1962.
ref: 2006, James Knight, Just Doing My Job, unnumbered page:
text: I became a ten-pound tourist, and emigrated to Australia. While I was there, I saw nobody from Trinity - apart from John Castle on the silver screen in Melbourne, starring in a film with Katherine Hepburn, which hardly counts. Nearly five years later, to miners′ strikes and the three-day week, I returned,[…].
ref: 2009, Sebastian Balfour, Laurie Howes, Michael De Larrabeiti, Anthony Weale, editors, Trinity Tales: Trinity College Dublin in the Sixties, page 154:
synonyms: ten pound Pom
ten pound pom
glosses: An assisted immigrant to Australia from Britain, from the decades following World War II.