cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
forewarn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forewarns
form: forewarning
form: forewarned
form: forewarned
Etymology: Early 14th century, from Middle English *forewarnen (suggested by Middle English forewarned, forewarning, forewarner, etc.), from Old English forewarnian (“to take warning beforehand; forewarn”), from Proto-Germanic *furawarnōną (“to forewarn”), equivalent to fore- + warn. Cognate with German vorwarnen (“to forewarn”), Swedish förvarna (“to forewarn”).
Senses: examples: text: And ſure, although it was invented to eaſe his mynde of griefe, there be a number of caveats therein to forewarne other young gentlemen to foreſtand with good government their folowing yl fortunes; […]
ref: 1576, George Whetstone, “The Ortchard of Repentance: […]”, in The Rocke of Regard, […], London: […] [H. Middleton] for Robert Waley, →OCLC; republished in J[ohn] P[ayne] Collier, editor, The Rocke of Regard, […] (Illustrations of Early English Poetry; vol. 2, no. 2), London: Privately printed, [1867?], →OCLC, page 291:
text: “I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I ? Why didn’t I telephone ? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape.[…]”
ref: 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad, →OL:
glosses: To warn in advance.
Derived terms: forewarned is forearmed
forewarningly
Related terms: fore-
foresight
foretell
forethought
parliaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parliament
cross-staff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-staffs
form: cross-staves
Senses: topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: An archbishop's cross.
examples: text: The cross-staff is a very simple instrument, a calibrated shaft along which a bar slides.
ref: 2015, David Wootton, The Invention of Science, Penguin, published 2016, page 188:
glosses: An early instrument, consisting of a wooden rod with a sliding crosspiece, used for measuring the altitude of a star or for surveying.
crosstree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crosstrees
Etymology: From cross + tree.
Senses: examples: text: Your most usual point of perch is the head of the t’ gallant-mast, where you stand upon two thin parallel sticks (almost peculiar to whalemen) called the t’ gallant crosstrees.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 35”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A light timber or metal spreader fixed athwartships part way up a mast to spread the shrouds from higher up
crow's nest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crow's nests
form: crow's-nest
form: crowsnest
Etymology: From the habit of crows building nests high up in trees.
Senses: examples: text: When Captain Sleet in person stood his mast-head in this crow’s-nest of his, he tells us that he always had a rifle with him (also fixed in the rack), together with a powder flask and shot, for the purpose of popping off the stray narwhales, or vagrant sea unicorns infesting those waters; […].
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 35, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small open-top shelter, originally a cask, on the top of the foremast, large enough to accommodate a lookout. It was used by whalers to watch for a blow (spout), or in icebound waters to seek a channel.
Derived terms: Crowsnest Pass
Related terms: top
foretop
thaumaturgies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thaumaturgy
neanderthal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Neanderthal.
neanderthal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neanderthals
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Neanderthal.
acetylcholine chloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A parasympathomimetic drug that is rapidly broken down in the body, used for cataract surgery.
parasympathomimetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: parasympathicomimetic
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Acting by stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system.
parasympathomimetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parasympathomimetics
form: parasympathicomimetic
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A parasympathomimetic drug.
corrida
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corridas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish corrida.
Senses: examples: text: […]El Juli, a young and already much-admired torero, takes risk after risk until he is gored, drops to the sand and is helped up by Enrique Ponce Martinez - Spain 's leading matador and his partner for the afternoon's corrida.
ref: 2009 January 31, AL Kennedy, “Deaths in the afternoon”, in The Guardian:
topics: bullfighting
entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: a bullfight
bullfight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullfights
Etymology: From bull + fight.
Senses: synonyms: word: bullfeast
glosses: A public spectacle, in Spain and some other Latin countries, in which a person baits and often kills a bull.
Derived terms: antibullfight
Related terms: bullfighting
charity shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charity shops
Senses: examples: text: Screwing in a charity shop / On top of black bin bags / Full of donations
ref: 2025, “Tina”, in Jarvis Cocker (lyrics), More, performed by Pulp:
glosses: A retail establishment run by a charitable organization in order to raise funds for its causes.
Synonyms: english: see the other synonyms there
translation: see the other synonyms there
word: thrift shop
parasympathetic nervous system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parasympathetic nervous systems
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: One of the divisions of the autonomic nervous system, based between the brain and the spinal cord, that slows the heart and relaxes muscles.
Related terms: central nervous system
enteric nervous system
sympathetic nervous system
phenolphthalein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfiː.nɒlˈ(f)θa.liːn/
ipa: /ˌfiː.nɒlˈ(f)θeɪ.liːn/
ipa: /ˌfi.nl̩ˈθæl.i.ɪn/
ipa: /ˌfi.nl̩ˈθæˌlin/
ipa: /ˌfi.nl̩ˈθeɪˌlin/
Forms: form: phenolphthaleins
Etymology: From phenol + phthalein.
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A white or yellowish-white crystalline compound C₂₀H₁₄O₄ used in medicine as a laxative and in analysis as an indicator because its solution is brilliant red in alkalies and is decolorized by acids.
Derived terms: iodophthalein
tetrabromophenolphthalein
tetrachlorophenolphthalein
Related terms: phenolphthalin
comparer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpɛəɹə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: comparers
Etymology: From compare + -er.
Senses: synonyms: comparator
glosses: One who, or that which, compares.
yachters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yachter
yachted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of yacht
ancon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæŋkɒn/
Forms: form: ancones
form: ancons
Etymology: From Latin ancōn, from Ancient Greek ἀγκών (ankṓn, “bend, elbow, cranny”).
Senses: glosses: The corner of a wall or rafter.
topics: architecture
glosses: A console that appears to support a cornice.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The elbow.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The olecranon.
Derived terms: anconal
Related terms: anconad
anconagra
anconeal
anconitis
anconoid
ancones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /æŋˈkəʊniːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of ancon
ligularia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɪɡ.jʊˈlɛəɹi.ə/
ipa: /ˌlɪɡ.jəˈlɛɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Forms: form: ligularias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several species of flowering plant, of the genus Ligularia, having heart-shaped leaves and bright, daisy-like flowers.
impulse function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impulse functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any generalized function which is defined by its behavior under integration.
Related terms: delta function
incidence function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incidence functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function that assigns a pair of vertices to each edge of a graph.
increasing function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: increasing functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any function of a real variable whose value increases (or is constant) as the variable increases.
Derived terms: strictly increasing function
strictly increasing function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strictly increasing functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any function of a real variable whose value increases as the variable increases.
Related terms: monotonic function
monotonic increasing
quotity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quotities
Senses: glosses: A quotum or quota; a number of people or things
mulga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌlɡə/
ipa: /ˈmɐlɡə/
ipa: [ˈmɔʊlɡɐ]
rhymes: -ʌlɡə
Forms: form: mulgas
Etymology: From Gamilaraay malga.
Senses: examples: text: Ford (1969) points out that it is distributed from southern Northern Territory and northern South Australia west through mulga country of the Gibson and Great Victoria Deserts to the coast of Western Australia.
ref: 1981, Joseph Michael Forshaw, William T. Cooper, Australian Parrots, page 246:
text: 1983, Queensland Department of Agriculture and Stock, The Queensland Journal of Agriculture and Animal Science, Volumes 40-42, page 68,
This paper describes a preliminary field experiment designed to examine the effect of supplementing sheep fed mulga with several proprietary licks and a more comprehensive field experiment to evaluate the effect of the most promising lick fed with cottonseed meal.
text: There are several different types of mulga, and Anangu know the different food which comes from them. For example, insects make a thing like a small apple on the pakuta (horse mulga). This one is good to eat but there is another one on a different sort of mulga which is not edible.
ref: 1996, Lynn Baker, Mingkiri: A Natural history of Ulu−ru by the Mu−titjulu Community, page 26:
text: The return of mulgas, native grasses and other shrubs was finally giving wildlife researchers some hope that numerous animals on the endangered species list might yet be saved if their ecosystems could be restored.
ref: 2002, Brad Collis, Fields of Discovery: Australia′s CSIRO, Australia: CSIRO, page 15:
glosses: Any of a number of small acacia trees, especially Acacia aneura, forming dense scrub in dry inland areas of Australia.
qualifier: preceded by definite article
glosses: Any region where mulga is the predominant vegetation.
examples: text: I'd forgotten for a moment you are not all mulga-bred […]
ref: 1901, Jack Mathieu, “That Day at Boiling Downs”, in Australian Ballads & Short Stories, Penguin, published 2003, page 263:
glosses: The outback.
glosses: Something made from the wood of a mulga tree.
glosses: Ellipsis of mulga wire (“a message or story transmitted through an informal gossip network, especially one containing false information”).
Derived terms: mulga apple
mulga black
mulga madness
mulga snake
mulga wire
red mulga
Related terms: spinifex
astral plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astral planes
Senses: examples: text: Incidentally, such beings may be said to have an existence of a sort upon the lower astral plane; they are elementals created by man's evil desires and unclean thoughts.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 115:
text: The realm of the astral plane is an intermediate realm; below is the world of matter, above is the world of pure Being.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 221:
topics: fantasy
parapsychology
pseudoscience
synonyms: astral world
desire world
glosses: A supernatural plane of existence consisting of the world of the celestial spheres, propounded by esoteric philosophies, some religious teachings, and New Age thought.
examples: text: Emoji are in the astral plane.
text: If your application works with MathML, or in various languages whose character sets gained support in Unicode 3.1 through the so-called Astral Planes, you will need to know that what Java calls a char is not really the same thing as a Unicode character or an XML character.
ref: 2002, David Brownell, SAX2, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 110:
text: The answer was UTF-16. Two blocks of 16-bit values were set aside for use as special values for encoding astral plane characters.
ref: 2002, Lars Marius Garshol, “Re: Stupid Unicode/UTF-16 Question”, in comp.text.xml (Usenet):
text: UTF-16 encodes every character from O—65535 as 2 bytes; it then uses some dirty hacks if you actually need to represent the rarely used astral plane Unicode characters beyond 65535.
ref: 2009, Mark Pilgrim, Dive Into Python 3, Apress, →ISBN, page 55:
text: The astral planes include some such characters, notably in the CJK extensions, without which it is impossible to write some people's names correctly.
ref: 2011, Tom Anderson, “Efficient unicode string implementation was: Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals?”, in comp.lang.java.programmer (Usenet):
text: Such characters are in the so-called “Astral Planes,” with a code point above U+FFFF.
ref: 2011, David Hunter, Jeff Rafter, et al. (6 other authors), Beginning XML, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 134:
text: But not all codepoints are used equally. Those in the "astral plane", for example, are used rarely, so the vast majority of the time you would be using twice as much memory as strictly necessary.
ref: 2012, MRAB, “Re: Py 3.3, unicode / upper()”, in comp.lang.python (Usenet):
text: Let's assume you want to display a Unicode character via JavaScript that is in an astral plane (obviously, there is a risk when doing so: not all fonts support all such characters).
ref: 2014, Axel Rauschmayer, Speaking JavaScript, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 364:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A Unicode plane (range of code points) above the Basic Multilingual Plane; any plane beyond U+FFFF.
Related terms: astral body
astral projection
drive Irish tandem
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drives Irish tandem
form: driving Irish tandem
form: drove Irish tandem
form: driven Irish tandem
Senses: examples: text: c. 1848, Thomas Francis Meagher, Meagher of the Sword: Speeches of Thomas Francis Meagher in Ireland, 1846-1848, his narrative of events in Ireland in July 1848, personal reminiscences of Waterford, Galway, and his schooldays, page 287,
“Mr. Mayor and fellow citizens,” it was thus he addressed the meeting the morning I returned to Waterford, “I came to attend this meeting, driving Irish tandem — that is one foot before the other.”
text: He was driving Irish tandem, but perhaps I talk at random – / I'd forgotten for a moment you are not all mulga-bred; / What I mean's he had his swag up through his having knocked his nag up
ref: 1901, Jack Mathieu, “That Day at Boiling Downs”, in Australian Ballads & Short Stories, Penguin, published 2003, page 263:
glosses: To walk; to go by foot.
pharmacists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pharmacist
blucher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbluːkə/
rhymes: -uːkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bluchers
Etymology: Named from Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742–1819), a Prussian general.
Senses: glosses: A form of horse-drawn carriage; a Blucher coach.
examples: text: He whistled tunelessly his one air, beating his own time with a stick on the toe of his blucher, then looked overhead at the sun and calculated that she must have been lying like that for `close up an hour.'
ref: 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 13:
glosses: A sturdy laced leather half-boot.
guyver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡaɪvə/
Forms: form: guiver
form: gyver
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: glosses: Flattering talk; behaviour put on to impress or deceive; persiflage.
neddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛdi/
rhymes: -ɛdi
Forms: form: neddies
Etymology: Variant of netty.
Senses: examples: text: Neddy, Netty, a certain place that will not bear a written explanation, but which is depicted to the very life in a tail-piece in the first edition of Bewick's ‘Land Birds’ (1797), p. 285.
ref: 1825, John Trotter Brockett, Glossary of North Country Words::
glosses: Alternative form of netty: an outhouse; a lavatory; a toilet.
pibroch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpiːbɹɒk/
/ˈpiːbɹɒx/
Forms: form: pibrochs
form: piobaireachd
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic pìobaireachd (“act of playing the bagpipes”), from pìobaire (“piper”) + -achd (“abstract noun suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: Ever, as on they bore, more loud / And louder rung the pibroch proud.
ref: 1810, The Lady of the Lake, Walter Scott, 2.XVII:
text: He had heard the stirring pibrochs speed the Gordons in their fights, / It had borne them through the fire zone as they swung up Dargai's heights […]
ref: 1908, E. G. Murphy, ‘The Doctor's Story’, Australian Ballads & Short Stories, Penguin, published 2003, page 279:
text: Halfway through The Big Music, Kirsty Gunn notes that piobaireachd, a particular form of bagpipe composition, sounds ‘foreign and strange’ to those not raised on it.
ref: 2012, Hannah Rosefield, “Piping Up”, in Literary Review, section 401:
glosses: A series of musical variations for the bagpipes, usually martial or funerary in nature.
myall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪˈɔːl/
Forms: form: myalls
Etymology: Borrowed from Dharug mayal, miyal.
Senses: examples: text: He […] flung himself into the outstretched arms of Anna. "Wazzer madder liddle man?" she crooned. "Aw wazzer madder wid de liddle myall now?"
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter V, in Capricornia, page 75:
qualifier: Australian Aboriginal
glosses: A stranger; an ignorant person.
glosses: An Aboriginal person living according to tradition.
myall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪˈɔːl/
Forms: form: more myall
form: most myall
Etymology: Borrowed from Dharug mayal, miyal.
Senses: examples: text: It was some kind of gadget that can take away all your myall words, transcribe what you say in better language so people can understand what you are talking about.
ref: 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 99:
glosses: According to Aboriginal tradition; traditionally indigenous.
examples: text: ‘You blooming myall or what? What if the cops shot ya?’
ref: 2018, Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip, University of Queensland Press, published 2023, page 176:
glosses: Ignorant, stupid.
myall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪˈɔːl/
Forms: form: myalls
Etymology: Aboriginal, perhaps a transferred use of Etymology 1, above.
Senses: examples: text: 1859, John McDouall Stuart, journal entry, Third Expedition (In the vicinity of Lake Torrens, Explorations in Australia - The Journals of John McDouall Stuart, Echo Library, 2006, page 57,
Friday, 30th December, Hanson Range. […] Changed our course to a very prominent hill (which I have named Mount Arthur) bearing 275 degrees, and after crossing two small myall creeks and a stony plain with salt bush and grass, at ten miles we struck a large myall and gum creek, coming from the north-west, with some very deep channels.
text: The durable, dark-colored wood of the coast myall or mountain brigalow (A. glaucescens) has been likened to that of English walnut.
ref: 1968, Thomas H. Everett, Living Trees of the World, page 185:
glosses: Any of various Australian acacias, especially the weeping myall, Acacia pendula, or the wood of such trees.
gunroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gunrooms
Etymology: From gun + room.
Senses: glosses: A room where guns are stored.
glosses: Living quarters for junior officers and midshipmen on a warship (hence gunroom officers). In the past it was usually set in the forecastle.
Related terms: wardroom
game theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A branch of applied mathematics that studies strategic situations in which individuals or organisations choose various actions in an attempt to maximize their returns.
Synonyms: word: theory of games
Derived terms: game-theoretical
Related terms: gameplay
gamification
gaming
gaming the system
play games
ludic fallacy
ludology
theory of games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
mathematics
sciences
glosses: game theory.
game-theoretical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: economics
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or defined in terms of game theory.
midshipmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midshipman
trailer sailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trailer sailers
form: trailer sailor
Senses: glosses: A sailboat designed to be carried on a towed trailer.
mandibles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmæn.dɪ.b(ə)lz/
/ˈmæn.də.b(ə)lz/
Senses: glosses: plural of mandible
destinies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of destiny
flavored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flavored
form: most flavored
Senses: examples: text: This is only grape-flavored soda. The flavoring is artificial; real grape juice tastes much richer.
glosses: US standard spelling of flavoured.
Derived terms: multiflavored
nonflavored
preflavored
underflavored
unflavored
flavored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flavor
citing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪtɪŋ
homophone: sighting
homophone: siting
ipa: [ˈsaɪ̯ɾɪŋ]
homophone: sighting
homophone: siting
homophone: siding
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cite
citing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪtɪŋ
homophone: sighting
homophone: siting
ipa: [ˈsaɪ̯ɾɪŋ]
homophone: sighting
homophone: siting
homophone: siding
Forms: form: citings
Senses: examples: text: Authors frequently do not cite references that are more than three years old because manuscript referees often dismiss or devalue older citings.
ref: 2010, Samuel Totten, Jon E. Pedersen, Teaching and Studying Social Issues:
glosses: Citation.
siting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪtɪŋ/
homophone: citing
homophone: sighting
Senses: examples: 1997, Christine M. Koontz, Library Facility Siting and Location Handbook,
Library and information school curricula must include training and introduction to siting and location issues for a new generation of library and information professionals.
glosses: present participle and gerund of site
glosses: Misspelling of citing.
glosses: Misspelling of sitting.
siting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪtɪŋ/
homophone: citing
homophone: sighting
Forms: form: sitings
Senses: examples: text: Focusing upon three northeastern states — New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania — which were among the nation's leaders in both attempted and successful sitings of such facilities, we considered dozens of relevant controversies […]
ref: 2010, Edward J. Walsh, Rex Warland, Don't Burn it Here: Grassroots Challenges to Trash Incinerators:
glosses: The act of finding a site for something.
professionals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of professional
delivers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deliver
assists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɪsts/
rhymes: -ɪsts
Senses: glosses: plural of assist
assists
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɪsts/
rhymes: -ɪsts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of assist
pannikin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pannikins
Etymology: From pan + -kin.
Senses: examples: text: 1852, Ellen Clacy (diarist), cited in Susan Lawrence, "Households on Australian goldfields" in Penelope M. Allison (ed.), The Archaeology of Household Activities, London: Routledge, 1999,
‘a block of wood forms a table, and this is the only furniture; many dispense with that. The bedding, which is laid on the ground, serves to sit upon. Tin plates and pannikins… compose the tea service.’
text: Scarcely had we got things fixed and supper under weigh, when a yell from Boteler, 'He's going to spout!' caused us to drop teapot and pannikin, and tumble out of the tent in half no time.
ref: 1876, Earl of Dunraven, The Great Divide: Travels in the Upper Yellowstone in the Summer of 1874, London: Chatto and Windus, page 265:
text: A stout Burmese woman, wife of a constable, was kneeling outside the cage ladling rice and watery dahl into tin pannikins.
ref: 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days:
text: It is all bound up in my mind with the winter cold, the ragged uniforms of militiamen, the oval Spanish faces, the morse-like tapping of machine-guns, the smells of urine and rotting bread, the tinny taste of bean-stews wolfed hurriedly out of unclean pannikins.
ref: 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
text: The peasants and their wives came to the doors of their cottages. Some brought out pannikins of water to the fleeing Jews; others laughed and jeered.
ref: 1950, Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated by A.H. Gross, The Family Moskat, New York: Knopf, Part V, Chapter 1, p. 258:
text: Water was seriously rationed, and each slave was given half a pint of water served in a pannikin.
ref: 2007, Toyin Falola, Amanda Warnock, editors, Encyclopedia of the Middle Passage, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, page 131:
glosses: A durable cup or other vessel used for drinking made of metal and coated in enamel.
examples: text: “[…] Put the billy on the fire, Jimmy, and we’ll drink him a good voyage in half a pannikin of tea before we turn in.”
ref: 1903, Ernest W. Hornung, chapter 18, in Denis Dent, New York: Frederck A. Stokes, page 183:
glosses: The contents of such a vessel.
Derived terms: pannikin boss
pannikinful
Related terms: cup
mug
serrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛɹˌeɪt/
ipa: /ˈsɛɹ.ət/
rhymes: -ɛɹət
ipa: /səˈɹeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: more serrate
form: most serrate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin serrātus, past participle of serrō.
Senses: examples: text: Many click beetles have serrate antennae.
glosses: Having tooth-like projections on one side, as in a saw.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of leaves: having tooth-like projections pointed away from the petiole.
Synonyms: sense: saw-like
word: jagged
word: saw-toothed
word: notched
Derived terms: biserrate
calloso-serrate
retroserrate
serrate-ciliate
serrate-dentate
serrulate
setaceo-serrate
subserrate
Related terms: dentate
runcinate
serrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛɹˌeɪt/
ipa: /ˈsɛɹ.ət/
rhymes: -ɛɹət
ipa: /səˈɹeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: serrates
form: serrating
form: serrated
form: serrated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin serrātus, past participle of serrō.
Senses: glosses: To make serrate.
examples: text: I [...] set off to check the other sheltered valleys that serrate the east side of Lundy.
ref: 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 59:
glosses: To cut or divide in a jagged way.
coding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /koʊdɪŋ/
ipa: /kəʊdɪŋ/
Forms: form: codings
Etymology: Etymology tree
English code
English -ing
English coding
From code + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The process of encoding or decoding.
glosses: An encoding.
examples: text: I spent all night on the coding, but the program was ready by morning.
text: I spent decades as a knowledge worker in technology, precisely where society wanted me—in front of screens, building digital products, becoming the very kind of specialist I’m now critiquing. Like many of my generation, I learned some simple coding before I learned to fix a leaky faucet or [to] grow my own food. I still love technology and believe in its potential to automate mundane tasks, freeing us to pursue higher forms of creativity and connection—but this promise rings hollow if we sacrifice our fundamental capabilities in the process.
ref: 2024 November 29, Joshua Stylman, How Engineered Dependency Erases Our Autonomy:
synonyms: computer programming
glosses: The process of writing computer software code.
topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: A method of communicating important medical information discreetly and quickly between medical professionals and responders.
glosses: An alternative therapy used to treat addictions by convincing the patient (through hypnosis, placebos, etc.) that the substance will harm or kill them if they use it again.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A 1-uniform morphism; an injective morphism; a morphism that maps letter to letter
glosses: Ellipsis of number coding.
coding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /koʊdɪŋ/
ipa: /kəʊdɪŋ/
Etymology: Etymology tree
English code
English -ing
English coding
From code + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of code
coding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /koʊdɪŋ/
ipa: /kəʊdɪŋ/
Etymology: Etymology tree
English code
English -ing
English coding
From code + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: My car is coding today, so I cannot drive.
glosses: Applied to vehicles when they are under number coding.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from all parts of speech
word: anticoding
sense: Terms derived from all parts of speech
word: autocoding
sense: Terms derived from all parts of speech
word: coding theory
sense: Terms derived from all parts of speech
word: coding time
sense: Terms derived from all parts of speech
word: double coding
sense: Terms derived from all parts of speech
word: dual-coding theory
sense: Terms derived from all parts of speech
word: hard-coding
sense: Terms derived from all parts of speech
word: Huffman coding
sense: Terms derived from all parts of speech
word: live coding
sense: Terms derived from all parts of speech
word: Manchester coding
sense: Terms derived from all parts of speech
word: noncoding
sense: Terms derived from all parts of speech
word: non-coding DNA
sense: Terms derived from all parts of speech
word: non-coding RNA
sense: Terms derived from all parts of speech
word: number coding
sense: Terms derived from all parts of speech
word: precoding
sense: Terms derived from all parts of speech
word: predictive coding
sense: Terms derived from all parts of speech
word: prefix coding
sense: Terms derived from all parts of speech
word: pseudocoding
sense: Terms derived from all parts of speech
word: V-coding
sense: Terms derived from all parts of speech
word: vibe coding
decoding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkəʊdɪŋ(ɡ)/
Forms: form: decodings
Senses: antonyms: encoding#Noun
glosses: An instance of the translation of something (usually a message or other text) into a form more suitable for subsequent processing.
decoding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkəʊdɪŋ(ɡ)/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decode
mistakenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈsteɪ.kən.li/
Etymology: From mistaken + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I mistakenly assumed that the shop was still there.
text: Most Americans mistakenly believe that they must see specialists for almost every medical problem.
ref: 2017 June 3, Jamie Koufman, “The Specialists’ Stranglehold on Medicine”, in The New York Times:
text: The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily paused a lower court-ordered deadline to return to the US a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador, granting the Trump administration additional time to review the case.
ref: 2025 April 8, Hanna Park, “A timeline of the legal battle over the mistaken deportation of a Maryland father to El Salvador”, in CNN:
glosses: Wrongly; erroneously.
examples: text: Today I mistakenly took your packed lunch to work.
glosses: By accident; by mistake; in error (without intention to do so).
Related terms: mistake
mistaken
mistakingly
mistook
engages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: This pedal engages the clutch, and until you do that you can't shift.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of engage
moniliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin monilia (“jewels”) + -form
Senses: glosses: Having a form resembling a string of beads, where the component parts or segments are more or less uniform in size and are spherical or rounded in shape.
Derived terms: moniliformly
interlock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈlɒk/
ipa: /ˈɪntə(ɹ)ˌlɒk/
Forms: form: interlocks
form: interlocking
form: interlocked
form: interlocked
Etymology: From inter- + lock.
Senses: glosses: To fit or clasp together securely.
glosses: To interlace.
Derived terms: interlockable
interlocker
microinterlocking
noninterlocking
uninterlocked
interlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈlɒk/
ipa: /ˈɪntə(ɹ)ˌlɒk/
Forms: form: interlocks
Etymology: From inter- + lock.
Senses: examples: text: The demonstrator couldn't figure out why the machine wouldn't work, until he remembered that there was an interlock so it wouldn't operate with the cover open.
text: Features such as trackless doors, mercury-type door interlocks, roof-mounted door fault indicator lights, rubber window glazing, improved retractable shoegear and a modified electro-pneumatic brake system designed to facilitate maintenance and improve reliability, which have proved their worth on the prototype trains, are continued in the new stock.
ref: 1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 94:
glosses: A safety device that prevents activation in unsafe conditions.
deviance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdiːvɪəns/
Forms: form: deviances
Etymology: Borrowed from French déviance.
Senses: examples: text: Socrates was sentenced to death for his deviance.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Actions or behaviors that violate formal and informal cultural norms such as laws and customs.
glosses: A person or thing that differs from the expected.
Derived terms: phenodeviance
Related terms: deviant
deviation
proxies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proxy
prefers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: præfers
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prefer
idiots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪd.iː.əts/
ipa: /iːdʒɪts/
Senses: glosses: plural of idiot
pectinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛktəneɪt/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pectinātus (“combed”), from pectinō (“I comb”), from pecten (“comb”). First attested in the mid-18th century.
Senses: examples: text: The moth's antennae were pectinate in shape, set with long teeth along one edge only.
topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
synonyms: pectinated
glosses: Resembling a comb.
Having narrow ridges or projections aligned close together like the teeth of a comb.
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
synonyms: pectinated
glosses: Resembling a comb.
Striate.
Derived terms: bipectinate
impectinate
monopectinate
pectinate line
pectinately
subpectinate
unipectinate
Related terms: bipectinated
pecten
pectinal
pectinatella
pectination
pectinibranchiate
pectiniform
unipectinated
pectinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛktəneɪt/
Forms: form: pectinates
form: pectinating
form: pectinated
form: pectinated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pectinātus (“combed”), from pectinō (“I comb”), from pecten (“comb”). First attested in the mid-18th century.
Senses: examples: text: To ſet croſſe legg’d, or with our fingers pectinated or ſhut together is accounted bad, and friends will perſwade us from it.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, “Compendiouſly of many queſtionable cuſtomes, opinions, pictures, practiſes, and popular obſervations”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 5th book, paragraph 9, page 266:
glosses: To fit together in an alternating manner; to interlock or interdigitate.
pectinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛktəneɪt/
Forms: form: pectinates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An ester or salt formed of pectinic acid.
Related terms: pectate
pectin
clavate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clavate
form: most clavate
Etymology: First attested in 1661; borrowed from New Latin clāvātus, from Latin clāva (“club”) + -ātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: an organism with clavate antennae
topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: claviform
clubbed
glosses: Resembling a club, becoming increasingly wide from the base to the distal end.
Synonyms: clubbed
Derived terms: obclavate
subclavate
Related terms: flabellate
lamellate
capitate
borderline personality disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borderline personality disorders
form: borderline-personality disorder
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: Behavior that borders both neurosis and psychosis.
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
hypernyms: cluster B personality disorder
qualifier: modern interpretation
glosses: A disorder characterized by extreme black and white thinking and instability in self-image and emotions.
Synonyms: word: BPD
word: EUPD
word: emotionally unstable personality disorder
Related terms: avoidant personality disorder
dependent personality disorder
antisocial personality disorder
narcissistic personality disorder
histrionic personality disorder
explosive sadism
homunculi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homunculus
lamellate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛlət
Etymology: From lamella + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Composed of, or furnished with, thin plates or scales.
examples: text: The dung beetle had lamellate antennae.
glosses: Having at least some component segments being lengthened on one side and flattened into circles, making these segments look like a stack of dinner plates.
Derived terms: bilamellate
lamellately
multilamellate
unilamellate
Related terms: english: thin plate
translation: thin plate
word: lame
word: lamella
word: lamellar
word: lamellation
word: lamina
word: laminate
word: laminated
word: lamination
word: multilamellate
word: multilamellated
flabellate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fləˈbɛlət/
rhymes: -ɛlət
Forms: form: more flabellate
form: most flabellate
Etymology: From Latin flābellum + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Fan-shaped; having parts or segments that are flattened and lengthened on one side, such that they are long and narrow.
Derived terms: biflabellate
recycled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recycle
recycled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This cardboard is made from recycled paper.
glosses: That has been through a recycling process.
notices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of notice
notices
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of notice
browsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹaʊzɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊzɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of browse
browsing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹaʊzɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊzɪŋ
Forms: form: browsings
Senses: examples: text: Browsings for the deer.
ref: 1655, James Howell, “To Dan. Caldwall Esq”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A place abounding with shrubs where animals may browse.
slower
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsləʊə/
ipa: /ˈsloʊɚ/
rhymes: -əʊə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: comparative form of slow: more slow
slower
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsləʊə/
ipa: /ˈsloʊɚ/
rhymes: -əʊə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: comparative form of slow: more slow
slower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsləʊə/
ipa: /ˈsloʊɚ/
rhymes: -əʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: slowers
Etymology: From slow + -er.
Senses: glosses: That which slows.
Derived terms: Zeeman slower
briskness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪsk.nəs/
Forms: form: brisknesses
Etymology: From brisk + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: [John] Evelyn was astonished at the immense number of pictures he saw in the Dutch fairs. He attributes the briskness of the trade in paintings to the necessary limitations of the country. The farmer or the citizen of sea-locked Holland, unable to lay out his gains on tracts of land, found a medium for speculation or investment in these works of art.
ref: 1857 October, R. A. V., “Art History”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume LVI, number CCCXXXIV, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, West Strand, →OCLC, page 500, column 1:
text: During this first winter Thea got no city consciousness. Chicago was simply a wilderness through which one had to find one's way. She felt no interest in the general briskness and zest of the crowds. The crash and scramble of that big, rich, appetent Western city she did not take in at all, except to notice that the noise of the drays and street-cars tired her.
ref: 1915 October, Willa Sibert Cather, chapter V, in The Song of the Lark, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], →OCLC, part II (The Song of the Lark), page 193:
text: He was trying to do everything briskly these days. Briskness, he had decided, was the one common characteristic of all successful businessmen. The big shots up at Head Office were absolutely fantastically brisk all the time. They were amazing.
ref: 1959 November 20, Roald Dahl, "The Landlady", archived from the original on 19 Mar 2023:
glosses: The property of being brisk.
privative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈprɪvətɪv/
rhymes: -ɪvətɪv
Forms: form: more privative
form: most privative
Etymology: From Latin privativus.
Senses: glosses: causing privation; depriving
examples: text: Privative blessings, blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty, and integrity.
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
glosses: consisting in the absence of something; negative
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: indicating the absence of something
Derived terms: privative a
privative adjective
privative case
Related terms: deprivation
deprived
privative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈprɪvətɪv/
rhymes: -ɪvətɪv
Forms: form: privatives
Etymology: From Latin privativus.
Senses: glosses: something that causes privation or indicates an absence
Derived terms: alpha privative
inhabiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inhabit
ignoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ignore
ignoring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹɪŋ
Forms: form: ignorings
Senses: examples: text: Employ two revokes, two trumpings of your partner's best card and two ignorings of a call — all in the same hand!
ref: 1923, William Henry Koebel, All Aboard: A Frivolous Book, page 102:
text: We ignore various far-fetched possibilities, as hard-headed detectives should. But S does not ignore them. S is by profession a sceptical epistemologist. He never ignores much of anything. If it is our own ignorings that matter, then we are wrong, because S never knew much of anything.
ref: 1999, David Lewis, Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology, volume 2, page 437:
glosses: The act by which something is ignored.
picks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪks/
rhymes: -ɪks
homophone: pix
homophone: pyx
Senses: glosses: plural of pick
picks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪks/
rhymes: -ɪks
homophone: pix
homophone: pyx
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pick
queries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of query
queries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of query
enhancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈhɑːnsə/
ipa: /ɪnˈhænsɚ/
ipa: /ɛnˈhænsɚ/
Forms: form: enhancers
Etymology: From enhance + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Mucuna pruriens' Latin name may be thought to suggest its predilection, but actually means itchy. Nonetheless, one can easily find it being sold in capsules as a sex enhancer. It has actually been used as such in Ayurvedic medicine for centuries.
ref: 2007, Ken Albala, Beans: A History, page 95:
glosses: Something that enhances.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A short region of DNA that can increase transcription of genes
Derived terms: bioenhancer
enhancerless
enhancer RNA
flavor enhancer
immunoenhancer
memory enhancer
nanoenhancer
neuroenhancer
pharmacoenhancer
photoenhancer
superenhancer
conveys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈveɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of convey
bumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌmps/
rhymes: -ʌmps
Senses: glosses: plural of bump
glosses: The ritual tossing of someone into the air to celebrate their birthday.
Derived terms: bumps race
bumps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌmps/
rhymes: -ʌmps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bump
bottom-most
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bottommost
Senses: glosses: Lowest, closest to the bottom.
Related terms: leftmost
rightmost
neutralizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neutralizers
form: neutraliser
Etymology: From neutralize + -er.
Senses: glosses: That which neutralizes.
journals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of journal
journals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of journal
mixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mix
mixes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mix
hisses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪsɪz/
rhymes: -ɪsɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of hiss
hisses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪsɪz/
rhymes: -ɪsɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hiss
poxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pox
poxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pox
lashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæʃɪz/
rhymes: -æʃɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of lash