cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
drive-through
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: drivethrough
form: drive-thru
Etymology: Deverbal from drive through.
Senses: examples: text: I switched banks so that I could use a drive-through branch near my home.
coordinate_terms: drive-in#Adjective
glosses: Of an establishment, providing service to occupants of automobiles while they are in their still-running vehicle, especially when the vehicle does not park in a parking space and the goods received are not consumed until the vehicle vacates the lane.
examples: text: The restaurant’s drive-through window had a turntable of bulletproof glass designed to allow transactions while preventing robberies.
glosses: Of a feature of such an establishment (especially a window), adapted to provide such service.
Derived terms: ski-through
drive-through
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drive-throughs
form: drivethrough
form: drive-thru
Etymology: Deverbal from drive through.
Senses: examples: text: Since I was pressed for time, I picked up burgers at a drive-through on the way home.
coordinate_terms: drive-in#Noun
glosses: An establishment, especially a restaurant, providing drive-through service.
examples: text: “Please pull forward and pay at the drive-through,” said the attendant upon taking my order.
glosses: The window of such an establishment adapted for such purpose.
Derived terms: ski-through
Related terms: curb service
drive-by
baby step
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby steps
Etymology: From the small, awkward movements of a young child learning to walk.
Senses: examples: text: Learning a new language is difficult, so we'll learn by taking baby steps.
text: “From a news operation standpoint, we’re going to start out with baby steps, but, eventually, this is going to be what you would expect it to be: a 24-hour operating network that covers a sport soup to nuts.”
ref: 2023 March 8, Jonathan Tannenwald, “CBS is launching a 24/7 soccer channel online”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer:
glosses: A small effort made towards the completion of a much larger task.
Related terms: baby talk
boxed set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boxed sets
Senses: glosses: A collection of recordings sold together in a single package.
Synonyms: box set
princessy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more princessy
form: most princessy
Etymology: From princess + -y.
Senses: synonyms: princessish
princesslike
princessly
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or suitable for a princess.
war hammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: war hammers
Senses: synonyms: martel
pole hammer
glosses: A medieval hammerlike weapon used in close combat.
Prince Valiant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Prince Valiants
Etymology: This was the hairstyle of the protagonist of the US comic strip Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur.
Senses: glosses: A hairstyle similar to a longer pageboy
wikipedia: Prince Valiant
air ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air balls
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A thrown ball that misses the basket, and completely fails to touch the net or supporting hoop.
glosses: Any ball-like object that widely misses its intended target when thrown.
incontrovertibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incontrovertibilities
Senses: examples: text: It seems that in general the more nearly a theory approximates incontrovertibility, the more nearly does it approximate triviality.
ref: 1941, A. H. Copeland, “Fundamental Concepts of the Theory of Probability”, in The American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 48, no. 8, part 1 (Oct), p. 525:
glosses: The state or characteristic of being incontrovertible, of not being debatable; incontestability.
Synonyms: sense: state of being incontrovertible
word: incontrovertibleness
sense: state of being incontrovertible
word: indisputability
sense: state of being incontrovertible
word: undeniability
sense: state of being incontrovertible
word: unquestionability
Related terms: incontrovertible
incontrovertibly
print-on-demand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of print on demand.
semi-works
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-works
form: semiworks
Etymology: From semi- + works.
Senses: glosses: A manufacturing plant large enough to produce market development quantities, but smaller than a full-scale commercial plant.
Related terms: pilot plant
print on demand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: print-on-demand
form: POD
Senses: examples: text: This list omits print-on-demand books run off from electronic copies of the 1903 edition available on the Internet.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 489:
topics: media
publishing
glosses: A system of printing very small runs of a document as required, especially by using computer technology.
pilot plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pilot plants
Senses: glosses: A small-scale chemical engineering facility designed to research the full-scale production of a product.
prison-bound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prison-bound
form: most prison-bound
Senses: glosses: Destined for prison, by leading a life of crime.
glosses: Incarcerated.
priss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
Forms: form: prisses
Etymology: Back-formation from prissy (analyzed as priss + -y (“(manner)”)); noun attested 1923.
Senses: examples: text: Robin: Have you ever been in love? / Steve: Yep. Nancy Wheeler. First semester, senior year. / Robin: Oh my God. She's such a priss.
ref: 2019, Stranger Things, season 3, episode 7, spoken by Steve Harrington and Robin Buckley (Joe Keery and Maya Hawke):
glosses: A prissy person
priss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
Forms: form: prisses
form: prissing
form: prissed
form: prissed
Etymology: Back-formation from prissy (analyzed as priss + -y (“(manner)”)); noun attested 1923.
Senses: glosses: To dress or behave in a prissy manner
Derived terms: priss around
private key
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: private keys
Senses: topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: secret key
coordinate_terms: public key
glosses: The unpublished key in asymmetric cryptography.
Related terms: public-key cryptography
overpopulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəˌpɒpjʊˈleɪʃn̩/
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˌpɑpjəˈleɪʃ(ə)n/
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚ-/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: overpopulations
Etymology: From over- (prefix meaning ‘excessive; excessively’) + population.
Senses: examples: text: I hope for another end, though not, indeed, from any of the three remedies for over-population commonly suggested by economists. These three are, in brief—Colonization; Bringing in of waste lands; or Discouragement of Marriage.
ref: 1860 August–December, John Ruskin, “Essay I. The Roots of Honour.”, in “Unto This Last:” Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1862, →OCLC, page 162:
text: Over the whole extent of the South Seas, from one tropic to another, we find traces of a bygone state of over-population, when the resources of even a tropical soil were taxed, and even the improvident Polynesian trembled for the future.
ref: 1891 February–December, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Depopulation”, in In the South Seas […], New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1896, →OCLC, part I (The Marquesas), page 37:
text: When it comes to overpopulation as the cause of wildlife loss in Africa, Prince William just won't let it go.
ref: 2021 November 26, Eliza Anyangwe, “Prince William's overpopulation remarks will do women no favors”, in CNN:
topics: biology
demographics
demography
natural-sciences
glosses: An excessive number of occupants (people, animals, plants, etc.) in a particular area; specifically, when the number of occupants exceeds the ability of that area to provide for them.
Related terms: word: overpopulate
word: overpopulated
word: overpopulous
overripe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overripe
form: most overripe
form: over-ripe
Etymology: From over- + ripe.
Senses: glosses: Excessively ripe; spoiled; gone bad.
Derived terms: overripely
overripeness
Related terms: overripen
go bad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes bad
form: going bad
form: went bad
form: gone bad
Senses: glosses: To spoil, rot, or otherwise become unusable due to age or storage conditions.
raw_tags: of foods and commodities
synonyms: break bad
go to the bad
turn evil
glosses: to cease to be reputable and instead become delinquent, criminal, immoral, corrupt or poorly behaved.
raw_tags: of a person or entity
glosses: To become unsafe.
raw_tags: of a geographic area
Related terms: go sour
go awry
go pear-shaped
goes bad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go bad
going bad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go bad
went bad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go bad
gone bad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go bad
gone bad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of foods and commodities, having become spoiled, rotten, or otherwise unusable due to age or storage conditions.
glosses: Of a person or entity, having ceased to be reputable and having instead become delinquent, criminal, or poorly behaved.
glosses: Of a region or area, having become unsafe.
examples: text: a drug deal gone bad, a robbery gone bad
synonyms: gone wrong
glosses: Of a delinquent or criminal act, having unexpectedly become more violent than is typical for that act—having resulted in an attack on a victim leading to serious injury or death.
privatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of privatize
privatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: privatization
circinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin circinatus, past participle of circinō (“to make round”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: circinal
glosses: Of a leaf or similar part: coiled on itself from the apex toward the base.
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: circinal
glosses: Round or ring-shaped, particularly with distinct margins forming some sort of motive; annular.
Derived terms: circinately
circinate vernation
subcircinate
prize-taking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From prize + taking.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The capturing of an enemy ship at sea; this results in a payment to all hands from the Admiralty.
glosses: The winning of a prize in a competition.
prize-taking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From prize + taking.
Senses: glosses: That wins prizes (used especially of livestock).
basilisks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basilisk
intimations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intimation
probeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more probeable
form: most probeable
Etymology: From probe + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be probed.
Related terms: probable
problemed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more problemed
form: most problemed
Etymology: From problem + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having (a specified form of) problems
problemo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹɒbˈleɪmoʊ/
rhymes: -eɪməʊ
Forms: form: problemos
Etymology: From problem + humorous -o suffix to imitate Spanish, the intended word being problema (still masculine, as it is derived from Greek).
Senses: glosses: problem
problem-solve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: problem-solves
form: problem-solving
form: problem-solved
form: problem-solved
form: problem solve
Etymology: Back-formation from problem solving.
Senses: glosses: To solve problems.
glid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Senses: examples: text: The boat glid across the lake gracefully.
glosses: simple past and past participle of glide
Synonyms: glided
probole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proboles
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek προβολή (probolḗ).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A bony projection, especially the occipital protuberance of the skull.
topics: Christianity
glosses: A conceptual projection of the Son or Holy Spirit from the Father in the Trinity.
probosciform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more probosciform
form: most probosciform
Etymology: From proboscis + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a proboscis.
Synonyms: proboscidiform
proceduralism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proceduralisms
Etymology: From procedural + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A belief in the importance of using agreed procedures.
glosses: A rigid adherence to established procedures.
Related terms: proceduralist
by the book
proceduralist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proceduralists
Etymology: From procedural + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of proceduralism
topics: law
glosses: An expert in legal procedures
precognitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiˈkɑɡ.nə.tɪv/
Forms: form: more precognitive
form: most precognitive
Etymology: From pre- + cognitive.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the ability to see or predict future events.
Synonyms: word: clairvoyant
word: augural
word: oracular
word: precognitive
word: prognostic
word: prophetic
Hyponyms: word: mantic
word: prescient
Related terms: word: auspicious
word: vatic
word: divination
word: lucky
word: oracle
word: precognition
word: predict
word: predictor
precognitive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiˈkɑɡ.nə.tɪv/
Forms: form: precognitives
Etymology: From pre- + cognitive.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A precognitive person, a seer.
Related terms: precognition
precog
pro-celeb
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: proceleb
Etymology: From pro- + celeb.
Senses: glosses: pro-celebrity
pro-celebrity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro + celebrity.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: In which professionals and celebrities participate together
precolonial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + colonial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a historical period before colonization.
precolonial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precolonials
Etymology: From pre- + colonial.
Senses: examples: text: After 1970 one no longer expected to find Tio whose parents had experienced the precolonial period, except for a few very old persons. Most people now were grandchildren of the precolonials.
ref: 1990, Jan M. Vansina, Paths in the Rainforests:
text: However, archaeological evidence also points to the likelihood of “direct jumps” by Saladoid migrants from South America to the northern Caribbean. It is easy to understand why these early precolonials were engaged in island-hopping.
ref: 2009, Basil A. Reid, Myths and Realities of Caribbean History, page 100:
text: The precolonials did not do it, and the moderns ought not to do it.
ref: 2015, Karlo Basta, John McGarry, Richard Simeon, Territorial Pluralism, page 233:
glosses: An inhabitant of an area before colonists first arrived.
preconceived
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌpɹiːkənˈsiːvd/
Senses: glosses: Conceived beforehand: formed ahead of time.
raw_tags: of an opinion or notion
Synonyms: forebegotten
preconceived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˌpɹiːkənˈsiːvd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preconceive
precursory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin praecursor.
Senses: examples: precursory symptoms of a fever
glosses: Being or relating to a precursor; relating to events that will follow.
Synonyms: word: introductory
word: preambulatory
word: precursive
word: prodromous
word: preliminary
word: precursory
Hypernyms: word: former
Hyponyms: word: inaugural
word: preambulary
word: prelusive
word: prelusory
word: preludial
word: preludious
word: proemial
word: prefatory
precursory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precursories
Etymology: From Latin praecursor.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A precursor; a sign of the onset of something.
predesignate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + designate. Adjective coined by Sir William Hamilton.
Senses: glosses: Designated in advance.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Having its quantity indicated by a verbal sign, as with "all", "none", etc.
raw_tags: of a proposition
predesignate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: predesignates
form: predesignating
form: predesignated
form: predesignated
Etymology: From pre- + designate. Adjective coined by Sir William Hamilton.
Senses: examples: text: The agent had to dead-drop the locker key to the PGU by some simple means, such as by taping it underneath a predesignated park bench, where it could be retrieved unobtrusively, usually by an officer under illegal cover.
ref: 2007, Ion Mihai Pacepa, Programmed to Kill:
glosses: To designate in advance.
Related terms: designate
predesignation
predigest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: predigests
form: predigesting
form: predigested
form: predigested
Etymology: From pre- + digest.
Senses: examples: text: Spiders predigest their food by injecting enzymes into their victims.
glosses: To digest food in advance of eating it
examples: text: If what's happened is what Jenny secretly suspects—that the neighbor has run the cat over in his driveway—they would like to predigest the news and tell Philip themselves.
ref: 2013, Francine Prose, The Peaceable Kingdom, →ISBN:
glosses: To preprocess in order to deliver the most important parts in a simplified form.
Related terms: digest
predigestion
predetermination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predeterminations
Etymology: From pre- + determination.
Senses: glosses: The act of determining beforehand.
glosses: Something that has been decided in advance.
Related terms: predetermine
predeterminer
predeterminer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predeterminers
Etymology: From pre- + determiner.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The function of a phrase that precedes a determiner in a noun phrase and modifies the head noun.
Related terms: determiner
postdeterminer
kufr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Arabic كُفْر (kufr), from the root ك ف ر (k f r).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Denial or rejection of Islam.
Related terms: kafir
takfir
takfiri
prearrangement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prearrangements
Etymology: From pre- + arrangement.
Senses: glosses: An arrangement or plan made beforehand.
Related terms: prearrange
preassigned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + assigned.
Senses: examples: text: On the first day of school, the students went to their preassigned rooms.
glosses: assigned or allotted in advance.
precariousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From precarious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The precariousness of political relations between the two countries could lead to war.
glosses: A state of being uncertain or unstable.
Synonyms: precarity
Related terms: sense: see
word: precarious
dead tree edition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead tree editions
form: dead-tree edition
Etymology: A dysphemism, referring to the raw materials from trees used in the manufacture of paper.
Senses: examples: text: dead-tree edition Derogatory cyberspeak for the paper version of a periodical....
ref: 2004, William R. Tracey, The Human Resources Glossary, page 167:
text: The city's major daily newspaper, the Oregonian, is losing subscribers to the dead-tree edition but has a large online following.
ref: 2011, Rachel Dresbeck, Insiders' Guide to Portland, Oregon, →ISBN, page 322:
glosses: The physical, printed version of a publication.
Synonyms: hard copy
Related terms: dead tree
treeware
paperware
outboast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outboasts
form: outboasting
form: outboasted
form: outboasted
Etymology: From out- + boast.
Senses: glosses: To boast better than another, to make greater claims about oneself than another makes or is able to make.
outboasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outboast
outboasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outboast
outboasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outboast
Islamo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: Islam-
Etymology: From Islam + -o-.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to Islam or Muslims.
Related terms: Islam
Islamite
Islamic
relinquishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relinquishments
Etymology: From relinquish + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of relinquishing something.
Synonyms: abandonment
cession
renunciation
surrender
relinquishments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relinquishment
self-disciplined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-disciplined
form: most self-disciplined
Etymology: From self- + disciplined.
Senses: glosses: Having self-discipline; in control of oneself and one's actions.
self-discipline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + discipline.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: willpower
text: Personal reinventions fail partly for the obvious reasons: you set your goals too high; or your existing obligations at work or home get in the way; or you find (who could have imagined it?) that the unimpressive level of self-discipline you’ve demonstrated for your entire life until this moment can’t magically be tripled overnight.
ref: 2022 January 1, Oliver Burkeman, “New year, same old you! The secret to self-improvement is embracing your messy, imperfect life”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: self-command
self-control
self-mastery
self-regulation
antonyms: undisciplinedness
coordinate_terms: self-awareness
self-criticism
glosses: Control of oneself.
Related terms: self-doubt
self-pity
kmet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kmɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: kmets
form: kmetovi
Etymology: From Serbo-Croatian kmȅt. Doublet of count and comes.
Senses: examples: text: Suffering from this double disability, social and religious, the Christian ‘kmet,’ or tiller of the soil, is worse off than many a serf in our darkest ages, and lies as completely at the mercy of the Mahometan owner of the soil as if he were a slave.
ref: 1876, Arthur John Evans, Through Bosnia and Herzegovina On Foot:
text: The authorities repeatedly emphasized that the kmet was not bound to his master, to counter allegations equating kmet tenure with servile status.
ref: 1997, Michael Palairet, The Balkan Economies c. 1800-1914, Cambridge, published 2002, page 206:
text: In any case, the Serbian kmets who remained within the old estate system on the eve of the First World War were not especially badly off by the standards of early twentieth-century peasant Europe […]
ref: 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 74:
glosses: A serf in Southeast Europe, especially one holding land under the estate system introduced by the Ottomans and retained in some areas by Austria-Hungary.
coloration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: colorations
form: colorification
form: colouration
Etymology: From French coloration, from Latin colōrātiō.
Senses: glosses: The act or art of coloring.
glosses: The quality of being colored.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A notational device for indicating hemiola through either use of red ink (in mensural black notation) or black noteheads (in mensural white notation).
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Ornamental division (also called passaggi, glosas, diminutions. etc.) employing rapid black notes.
examples: text: Numerous studies of family imprint upon offspring party attachment have shown that, when the father and mother agree politically, the children are likely to adopt the political coloration of their parents.
ref: 1968, Bernard Cosman, Robert Jack Huckshorn, Republican Politics, page 88:
text: The party was not organized as an Irish political vehicle, but from the first it had a decidedly Gaelic coloration.
ref: 2014, Kevin P. Phillips, The Emerging Republican Majority: Updated Edition, page 175:
glosses: Political tendency.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: This when a consonant bleeds one of the qualities to the next vowel before the consonant disappears. This can describe PIE Laryngeal Theory.
Derived terms: bicoloration
colorational
miscoloration
obliterative coloration
recoloration
warning coloration
Related terms: diatonic
chromatic
coloratura
psychedelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːliə
Forms: form: psychedelias
Etymology: From psychedelic + -ia.
Senses: examples: text: Recess’s website features the charms of vaporwave internet art and Lisa Frank-style nostalgia, while their Instagram account evokes the combined look of “Endless Summer” with “Floridian retiree” and the summer-camp psychedelia that has replaced “Lifestyle Lumberjack” as the default millennial style choice.
ref: 2019 January 8, Kate Carraway, “How to Make a Millennial Feel Cozy in Just One Beverage”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The subculture associated with those who take psychedelic drugs.
proception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: according to the philosophy of Justus Buchler, the process of the development of a person's experience by the interaction of behaviour and the environment.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Sexual behaviour that leads to conception. The term “proceptivity” was introduced into general sexological use by Frank A. Beach in 1976
proceptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proceptive
form: most proceptive
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to proception
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Leading to conception
proceptivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Behaviour that leads to copulation and thus conception
Related terms: proception
procerus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəʊˈsɛə.ɹəs/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈsɪɹ.əs/
Forms: form: proceri
form: proceruses
form: procerus nasi
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin prōcērus (“high, tall, long”), clipping of mūsculus prōcērus (“tall muscle”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: word: pyramidalis nasi
glosses: A roughly triangular facial muscle that arises from the fascia of the nasal bone and a cartilage in the side of the nose and inserts into the skin between the eyebrows, drawing down the medial part of the eyebrow and the skin of the forehead.
process art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A style of art, especially sculpture, which emphasises the process by which it was made, rather than its form.
processualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From processual + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A methodological analysis of processes in the social sciences
glosses: The application of processual methods in archaeology and anthropology
Related terms: processualist
processual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more processual
form: most processual
Etymology: From process + -ual.
Senses: examples: text: In order to address the systematic, processual character of interpersonal interactions — the larger mosaic of micro-level patterns — we must postulate subapparent but encompassing structures of social activity.
ref: 2017, Paul B. Stretesky, Michael J. Lynch, Radical and Marxist Theories of Crime:
glosses: Of or relating to a process, especially to the methodological study of processes in social science.
glosses: Of or relating to the methodological study of cultural change and variability in archaeology.
processualist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: processualists
Etymology: From processual + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of processualism
funis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin fūnis.
Senses: glosses: A cord or a cord-like structure.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Umbilical cord.
Derived terms: funisitis
pallidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pallidly
form: most pallidly
Etymology: From pallid + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a pallid manner.
parasitically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more parasitically
form: most parasitically
Etymology: From parasitic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Similarly, plants and mycorrhizal fungi are no longer thought of as behaving either mutualistically or parasitically.
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life:
glosses: In a parasitic manner.
Derived terms: ectoparasitically
endoparasitically
hyperparasitically
pardonably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pardonably
form: most pardonably
Etymology: From pardonable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Both men were astonished (and I imagine, pardonably proud) when I told them that our Canadian National road over the Rocky Mountain Summit through Yellowhead Pass above Jasper, is almost exactly only one-third as steep as Shap Bank!
ref: 1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 12:
glosses: In a pardonable manner.
parochially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more parochially
form: most parochially
Etymology: From parochial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a parochial manner.
parsimoniously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more parsimoniously
form: most parsimoniously
Etymology: From parsimonious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a parsimonious manner.
passingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From passing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I'm only passingly familiar with Schopenhauer: I haven't read many of his works.
glosses: Synonym of in passing.
synonyms: word: in passing
patchily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more patchily
form: most patchily
Etymology: From patchy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Hawkins, Lewis and Hankin are placed in the Diachronic category due to their attempt at a historical perspective, even though that is very patchily executed.
ref: 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 310:
glosses: In a patchy manner.
Synonyms: sporadically
discontinuously
paternally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈtɝnəli/
Forms: form: more paternally
form: most paternally
Etymology: From paternal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a paternal manner; fatherly.
pathologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæθ.əˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪk.li/
ipa: /ˌpæθ.əˈlɒ.d͡ʒɪk.li/
Forms: form: more pathologically
form: most pathologically
Etymology: From pathological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a pathological manner.
Derived terms: anatomopathologically
clinicopathologically
cytopathologically
etiopathologically
histopathologically
immunopathologically
micropathologically
neuropathologically
nonpathologically
paleopathologically
physiopathologically
phytopathologically
psychopathologically
patronizingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more patronizingly
form: most patronizingly
form: patronisingly
Etymology: From patronizing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: `Anyway, Bob's on a good wicket!' said Cummings patronisingly. `I wouldn't mind taking on the job myself.'
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 231:
glosses: In a patronizing manner.
patronymically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From patronymic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In the form of a patronymic.
pedantically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pedantically
form: most pedantically
form: pedanticly
Etymology: From pedantic + -ally and/or pedantical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “I think you might have warned me,” returned the other with a touch of sullenness. “But I have been pedantically exact, as you call it. The fellow had a key; and what’s more, he has it still. I saw him use it not a week ago.”
ref: 1886, Robert Louis Stevensony, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:
synonyms: pedantly
glosses: In a pedantic manner.
penetratingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more penetratingly
form: most penetratingly
Etymology: From penetrating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a penetrating manner.
penitently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more penitently
form: most penitently
Etymology: From penitent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a penitent manner.
penuriously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more penuriously
form: most penuriously
Etymology: From penurious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a penurious manner.
perceptively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more perceptively
form: most perceptively
Etymology: From perceptive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She performed appallingly on standard neurological tests, which are, as Sacks perceptively notes, specifically designed to deconstruct the whole person into a stack of 'abilities'.
ref: 1997, Guy Claxton, Hare brain, tortoise mind: why intelligence increases when you think less:
glosses: In a perceptive manner.
perceptually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more perceptually
form: most perceptually
Etymology: From perceptual + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a perceptual manner.
glosses: Regarding perception.
Derived terms: perceptually blind
perfidiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more perfidiously
form: most perfidiously
Etymology: From perfidious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a perfidious manner.
perilously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more perilously
form: most perilously
Etymology: From Middle English perilously; equivalent to perilous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A rather interesting and notable convenience, however, is that of ice water bags, which are hung on to the outside of the coaches at certain stops. These can be reached by leaning out of the window rather perilously, to unhook them, and paper cups are stocked in the compartments.
ref: 1951 February, K. Westcott Jones, “Some Australian Railway Byways”, in Railway Magazine, page 118:
text: A door flopped open, wobbling perilously on its one remaining hinge.
ref: 1988, Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, William Heinemann Ltd, page 90:
glosses: In a perilous manner.
peripherally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more peripherally
form: most peripherally
Etymology: From peripheral + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a peripheral manner.
glosses: At or towards a periphery.
permissibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more permissibly
form: most permissibly
Etymology: From permissible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a permissible manner.
permissively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more permissively
form: most permissively
Etymology: From permissive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a permissive manner.
perniciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more perniciously
form: most perniciously
Etymology: From pernicious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a pernicious manner.
Related terms: perniciousness
pernicious
peskily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more peskily
form: most peskily
Etymology: From pesky + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a pesky manner.
pessimistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pessimistically
form: most pessimistically
Etymology: From pessimistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a pessimistic manner.
pettily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pettily
form: most pettily
Etymology: From petty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a petty manner.
pictorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pictorially
form: most pictorially
Etymology: From pictorial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a pictorial manner.
picturesquely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɪktjʊəˈɹɛskli/
ipa: /ˌpɪkt͡ʃəˈɹɛskli/
Forms: form: more picturesquely
form: most picturesquely
Etymology: From picturesque + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The red-painted farm-houses, peculiar to Norway, lay picturesquely scattered on the higher points of the undulating valley, where men and women were busy hay-making.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 279:
text: An athlete might picturesquely lament that his ankle had betrayed him or that his wrist had gone on strike; and if such modes of speech acquired a wide vogue, we might now and then fall into the trap of supposing that we and our limbs are related in the way in which employers are related to their employees. We might start to talk seriously of cricketers being well advised to dismiss their limbs and to try to get on without them.
ref: 1954: Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 99 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)
text: Georgian and Regency houses cluster picturesquely around the sloping village green, which in springtime is carpeted with daffodils.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 194, about Gainford, Co. Durham:
glosses: In a picturesque manner.
piercingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more piercingly
form: most piercingly
Etymology: From piercing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a piercing manner.
Related terms: ear-piercingly
piggishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more piggishly
form: most piggishly
Etymology: From piggish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a piggish manner.
pigheadedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pigheadedly
form: most pigheadedly
Etymology: From pigheaded + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a pigheaded manner.
piously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪəsli/
Forms: form: more piously
form: most piously
Etymology: From pious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a pious manner
pitiably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pitiably
form: most pitiably
Etymology: From pitiable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a pitiable manner.
pitifully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pitifully
form: most pitifully
Etymology: From Middle English petefully, petifullie, pyttyfully, pytyffully; equivalent to pitiful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The coral faded even from her lips, till they were as white as Leo's face, and quivered pitifully.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “The Balance Turns”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 198:
glosses: In a pitiful manner.
pitilessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pitilessly
form: most pitilessly
Etymology: From pitiless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The simple questions of the tattered man had been knife thrusts to him. They asserted a society that probes pitilessly at secrets until all is apparent.
ref: 1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter X, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 106:
text: They treated the prisoners roughly [...] slashing pitilessly with their whips to drive them as wretched animals before them.
ref: 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 60:
glosses: In a pitiless manner.
placidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more placidly
form: most placidly
Etymology: From placid + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We spent a lot of time up on the staging of the great furnaces, trying to pick up the tricks of the trade from the taciturn furnacemen who sat around placidly smoking, or chewing twist, and occasionally throwing in more pig iron to the molten white-hot metal.
ref: 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
text: He was a big chubby man, in his middle thirties, the muscle of his rugger days now settling placidly to reminiscent fat.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 582:
glosses: In a placid manner.
plaintively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more plaintively
form: most plaintively
Etymology: From plaintive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a plaintive manner.
practicably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more practicably
form: most practicably
Etymology: From practicable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a practicable manner.
pragmatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pragmatically
form: most pragmatically
Etymology: From pragmatic + -ally or pragmatical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Well, there's no use crying over spilt milk," she said pragmatically.
text: To be pragmatically determined, it must be the case that the expression does not contribute new information to the structure of the discourse except as an unremarkable scenesetter.
ref: 1986, Michael Shaun Rochemont, Focus in Generative Grammar, page 58:
glosses: In a pragmatic manner.
examples: text: a pragmatically irrelevant proposition
glosses: In terms of pragmatics.
Derived terms: apragmatically
prancingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more prancingly
form: most prancingly
Etymology: From prancing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a prancing manner.
prayerfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more prayerfully
form: most prayerfully
Etymology: From prayerful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Hear me, O king, whoever you may be, and save me from the anger of the sea-god Neptune, for I approach you prayerfully. […]
ref: 1900, Samuel Butler, transl. The Odyssey, Book V., page 72
glosses: In a prayerful manner; with prayer and reverence.
Related terms: pray
prayer
prayerful
preciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more preciously
form: most preciously
form: pretiously
Etymology: From precious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a precious manner.
prehistorically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more prehistorically
form: most prehistorically
Etymology: From prehistoric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a prehistoric manner.
glosses: Regarding prehistory.
preponderantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more preponderantly
form: most preponderantly
Etymology: From preponderant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But when the second stage set in, in which man became preponderantly self-conscious, he inevitably set about deflecting sex-activities to his own private pleasure and advantage; he employed his budding intellect in scheming the derailment of passion and desire from tribal needs and, Nature's uses to the poor details of his own gratification.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 186:
glosses: In a preponderant manner.
prepositionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From prepositional + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The meaning of the gerundive can further be modified prepositionally.
ref: 2007, Kim Schulte, Prepositional Infinitives in Romance: A Usage-based Approach to Syntactic Change:
text: Words are thus used prepositionally along with all the noun-cases excepting the dative.
ref: 1879, William Dwight Whitney, Sanskrit Grammar:
glosses: In a prepositional manner.
glosses: As a preposition.
presciently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more presciently
form: most presciently
Etymology: From prescient + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The desire to know definitely and presciently is also one of the most urgent of the instincts proper of man; it leads him on to the most mystical speculations as to the future, and is the orectic basis of all the arts of divination, as well as of scientific Proleptics or anticipation of the order of nature.
ref: 1860, Thomas Laycock, Mind and brain, page 94:
text: It was Sir Walter Raleigh who presciently said: 'Who commands the sea commands trade; who commands the trade of the world commands its riches, and so commands the world itself.'
ref: 1992, Giles Radice, Offshore: Britain and the European Idea, page 20:
text: But as the pandemic accelerated, EMR acted presciently and made changes before the Government put the country into lockdown.
ref: 2020 September 9, Tom Ingall, “EMR adhering to franchise commitmenta”, in Rail, page 62:
glosses: In a prescient manner.
prescriptively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more prescriptively
form: most prescriptively
Etymology: From prescriptive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a prescriptive manner.
presentably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more presentably
form: most presentably
Etymology: From presentable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a presentable manner.
problematically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more problematically
form: most problematically
Etymology: From problematic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a problematic manner.
professedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /pɹəˈfɛsɪdli/
Forms: form: more professedly
form: most professedly
Etymology: From professed + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a professed manner.
proficiently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more proficiently
form: most proficiently
Etymology: From proficient + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a proficient manner.
profligately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more profligately
form: most profligately
Etymology: From profligate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In the next section of this paper we discuss a general strategy for estimating profligately (as opposed to parsimoniously) parameterized macromodels[.]
ref: 1980, Sims, Christopher A.: Macroeconomics and Reality, Econometrica 48.1, pp. 1-48; p. 15
text: For the purpose of defining a recursive competitive equilibrium, it is useful to note that it is also possible to define the state of the planner's problem more profligately as #92;tildeX#95;t#61;#92;left#91;#92;begin#123;array#125;#123;ccccc#125;#92;thetaamp;N#95;tamp;n#95;#123;t-1#125;amp;n#95;#123;t-2#125;amp;n#95;#123;t-3#125;#92;end#123;array#125;#92;right#93;' [sic] with associated decision rule n#95;t#61;-#92;tildeF#92;tildeX#95;t and law of motion #92;tildeX#95;#123;t#43;1#125;#61;#92;left(#92;tildeA-#92;tildeB#92;tildeF#92;right)#92;tildeX#95;t#43;#92;tildeC#92;epsilon#95;#123;t#43;1#125;.
ref: 2018, Lars Ljungqvist and Thomas J. Sargent, Recursive macroeconomic theory, 4th edition, MIT Press, page 233:
glosses: In a profligate manner.
prohibitively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more prohibitively
form: most prohibitively
Etymology: From prohibitive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a prohibitive manner.
examples: a prohibitively expensive gift
glosses: To a prohibitive extent.
promiscuously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more promiscuously
form: most promiscuously
Etymology: From promiscuous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Their closest living relatives, deer mice, dwell in forests instead of open spaces, she learned, and they live promiscuously instead of monogamously.
ref: 2017 April 19, Carl Zimmer, “Why Are Some Mice (and People) Monogamous? A Study Points to Genes”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In a promiscuous manner.
promisingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more promisingly
form: most promisingly
Etymology: From promising + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a promising manner.
prophetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more prophetically
form: most prophetically
Etymology: From prophetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a prophetic manner.
glosses: As a prophecy.