cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
curaçao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjuːɹəsaʊ/
ipa: /ˈkjuːɹəsəʊ/
ipa: /ˈk(j)ʊəɹ.əˌsaʊ/
ipa: /ˈk(j)ʊəɹ.əˌsoʊ/
ipa: /ˌk(j)ʊəɹ.əˈsaʊ/
ipa: /ˌk(j)ʊəɹ.əˈsoʊ/
Forms: form: curaçaos
form: curacao
form: curacoa
form: curaçoa
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Dutch curaçao, named for the island Curaçao in the Dutch Antilles, ultimately probably a Portuguese transcription of a Lokono endonym but literally equivalent to Portuguese curação (“cure, healing”), from Latin cūrātiōnem (“cure”), from cūrō (“to cure”) + -ātiō (“-ation”, suffix forming abstract nouns), from cūra (“attention, care”) + -āre (verb-forming suffix), q.v.
Senses: glosses: A liqueur made from eau de vie, sugar, and dried peel of sweet and sour oranges, naturally colorless but typically artificially colored blue.
dave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: daves
form: daving
form: daved
form: daved
form: daive
form: deave
form: deve
Etymology: From Middle English deven, deaven (“to make deaf”), from Old English dēafian (“to wax or become deaf”) and Old Norse deyfa (“to make deaf, make blunt, numb, soothe, allay”). Cognate with dialectal Norwegian døyva (“to deafen, make dull”).
Senses: glosses: To assuage; soften; mitigate; relieve; calm; alleviate (pain).
entrainment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entrainments
Etymology: Partly from French entraînement and partly entrain + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Carlo Antonio Bertinazzi, he whom the French stage knows under the name of Carlin, was the gayest of all comedians; he knew a thousand ways of amusing his audience, and would make them die with pleasure and laughter by his affecting performance of the Vingt-six infortunes d’ Arlequin; the entrainment of his gaiety and bonhomie were everywhere extolled.
ref: 1841 May 26, “Hay-Market Theatre”, in The Theatrical Observer; and Daily Bills of the Play, number 6060, London: E[dward] & J[ohn] Thomas, […], →OCLC, front page:
text: A philosopher, through indolence and carelessness before the Revolution, superstitious afterwards, through weakness and entrainment [translating entraînement], he threatened the Revolution with his sword from a distance.
ref: 1847, Alphonse de Lamartine, translated by H[enry] T[homas] Ryde, History of the Girondists; or, Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution. […], volume I, London: Henry G[eorge] Bohn, […], →OCLC, book XIV, section XV:
text: At page 60, and elsewhere, the English general is only spoken of as a mere nobody, carried away resistlessly by the “entrainments” [translating entraînements] around him.
ref: 1863 March, “Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea”, in William Harrison Ainsworth, editor, The New Monthly Magazine, volume CXXVII, number DVII, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, footnote, page 374:
text: The reviewer had to recognize [Thomas Babington] Macaulay’s talents; the entrainment of his picturesque, vivid, and pregnant execution could not be escaped.
ref: 1925 October, Walter Graham, “Some Infamous Tory Reviews”, in Edwin Greenlaw, editor, Studies in Philology, volume XXII, number 4, Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, section VIII, page 513:
text: For Longinus, it is the rhetor’s public capacity to bring out the whole audience’s entrainment to sublimity that is most important.
ref: 2005, Laurence Paul Hemming, “Rhetor and Rhetoric”, in Postmodernity’s Transcending: Devaluing God, London: SCM Press, →ISBN, page 53:
glosses: Enthusiasm, liveliness; impulsiveness.
glosses: Any of several processes in which a solid or liquid is put into motion by a fluid.
The carrying away of droplets of liquid during violent boiling.
glosses: Any of several processes in which a solid or liquid is put into motion by a fluid.
The movement of sediment in a stream of water or in a glacier.
glosses: Any of several processes in which a solid or liquid is put into motion by a fluid.
The mixing of air currents.
glosses: Any of several processes in which a solid or liquid is put into motion by a fluid.
The mixing of out flowing river water and underlying seawater.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The alignment of an organism's circadian rhythm to an external rhythm in its environment.
Derived terms: photoentrainment
reentrainment
entrainment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entrainments
Etymology: From entrain (“to board or put aboard a train”) + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: An experienced officer will be placed in charge at each station which is to be used for the entrainment of volunteers near Windsor and at the Waterloo and Paddington Termini in London.
ref: 1881 July 9, “The Present and Previous Volunteer Movements. An Historical Sketch.”, in Western Mail, number 3795, Cardiff, →OCLC, page 3, column 7:
text: The experimental line at Chatham is invaluable in practising entrainments, so that the work shall be performed in the shortest possible time.
ref: 1899 August, Marcus Tindal, “‘Sappers of the Queen.’ Some Account of the Work of the Royal Engineer Corps.”, in Pearson’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 44, London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., […], →OCLC, page 250:
text: On the day of entrainment the chief of the entrainment point, together with the chief of the deportation train and of the convoying military forces of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs, shall examine the railway cars provided in order to see that they are supplied with everything necessary, […]
ref: 1949, “Procedure for Entrainment”, in K. Pelékis [pseudonym], edited by Rumsaitis, Genocide: Lithuania’s Threefold Tragedy, Germany: […] „Venta”, →OCLC, Appendix 6 (Instructions Regarding the Procedure for Carrying Out the Deportation of Anti-Soviet Elements from Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. […] (Translated from the Original Russian Text in London).), page 277:
text: Five mornings a week the earl took the 9:55 train up to town, and it was well worth the mile walk from our house to the station to witness his entrainment.
ref: 1954, E[dward] Alexander Powell, chapter 2, in Adventure Road, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21:
text: The kidnapping charge focused attention on the march to the railroad station, the entrainment of victims, and their horrifying ride out of Hungary.
ref: 2005, Stephan Landsman, “Imre Finta”, in Crimes of the Holocaust: The Law Confronts Hard Cases (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights), Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 214:
glosses: The act of someone or something boarding or being put aboard a train.
coprolalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɑpɹəˈleɪliə/
Forms: form: coprolalias
Etymology: Borrowed from French coprolalie, coined by French neurologist Georges Gilles de la Tourette in 1885. Equivalent to copro- + -lalia.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: The uncontrolled use of abusive, obscene or scatological language; especially such behaviour associated with Tourette syndrome.
Derived terms: coprolaliac
coprolalic
Related terms: coprographia
copropraxia
psychobehavioral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more psychobehavioral
form: most psychobehavioral
Etymology: From psycho- + behavioral.
Senses: glosses: Describing aspects of behavior that have psychological causes or significance.
hypomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypomanias
Etymology: From hypo- + -mania, after German Hypomanie.
Senses: examples: text: She was lovely beyond all others, this Jewish dervish, with her sense of space and history, her echo-box of racial memories, her gallant hypomania.
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 197:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A mild form of mania, especially the phase of several mood disorders characterized by euphoria or hyperactivity.
distractibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The ease with which a person's concentration can be interfered with by external stimulation or by irrelevant thoughts
Related terms: distraction
patching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpæ.t͡ʃɪŋ/
Forms: form: patchings
Senses: examples: text: […] all this is not neatness, but frippery. These rufflings, and pinkings, and patchings, will only make us hated by all the wives of our neighbours.
ref: 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield:
glosses: The act of one who patches.
patching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈpæ.t͡ʃɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of patch
Derived terms: monkey-patching
patching up
patching-up
eka-osmium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eka- + osmium.
Senses: glosses: hassium.
plastics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plastic
plastics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Plastic surgery, especially as a profession.
Derived terms: oculoplastics
plastician
contingencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contingency
intumescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪntjʊˈmɛsənt/
ipa: /ɪntuˈmɛsənt/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Etymology: From Latin intumēscēns, present participle of intumescō (“rise, swell”), from tumescō (“become inflated”).
Senses: glosses: That becomes swollen, especially upon exposure to heat.
Derived terms: nonintumescent
Related terms: intumescence
intumescent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪntjʊˈmɛsənt/
ipa: /ɪntuˈmɛsənt/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: intumescents
Etymology: From Latin intumēscēns, present participle of intumescō (“rise, swell”), from tumescō (“become inflated”).
Senses: examples: text: Intumescents are used in some fire protection systems.
glosses: Any substance that swells on exposure to heat, thus increasing in volume and decreasing in density.
Middle Dutch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: (3) West Germanic, which is composed of:—
[...]
(d) Low Franconian, called Old Low Franconian or Old Dutch until about 1200; Middle Low Franconian or Middle Dutch from 1200 to 1500; from 1500 onwards New Low Franconian, including Dutch, Flemish, Brabantish, and Limburgish.
ref: 1907, Joseph Wright, Historical German Grammar: Vol. I: Phonology, Word-Formation and Accidence, page 7:
text: Old Low Franconian is the ancestor of modern Dutch, Flemish, Brabantish and Limburgish. It is called Old Low Franconian to c. 1100; Middle Low Franconian or Middle Dutch, from 1100 to 1600; from 1600 onwards, New Low Franconian or New Dutch.
ref: 1923 (reprinted 1948), Arthur Kirk, An Introduction to the Historical Study of New High German (Publications of the University of Manchester: Germanic Series; No. II), page 10:
text: One can distinguish four major dialect groups of Middle Dutch: (a) Flemish, which was spoken in the region of Flanders, and Zeeuws, spoken in Zeeland; (b) Brabantic, used in the area of Brussels, Louvain, Antwerp, Mechlin, and Breda; (c) Hollandic, the dialect of the county of Holland; and (d) Limburgic, the language used in the easter part of the Middle Dutch territory. The first three dialect groups may be referred to as West Franconian, while Limburgic is known as East Franconian.
ref: 1993, Colette M. van Kerckvoorde, An Introduction to Middle Dutch, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter (a division of Walter de Gruyter & Co.), page 1:
glosses: Collective name for a number of closely related West Germanic dialects (whose ancestor was Old Dutch) which were spoken and written between 1150 and 1500 in the present-day Dutch-speaking area. There was at that time as yet no overarching standard language, but they were all mutually intelligible.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Middle Dutch terms
non-partisan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonpartisan.
nonpartisan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-partisan
Etymology: From non- + partisan.
Senses: examples: text: This means Gore will have to stop dancing away from the question as if the pardon decision were somehow shared with the pardonee. It's time he chose the hard right over the easy wrong answer. (For Bush, it would be an opportunity to demonstrate nonpartisan compassion on a grand scale.)
ref: 2000 August 24, William Safire, “Essay; Pardon Me, But . . .”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2018:
synonyms: word: disinterested
word: unpartisan
word: candid
word: cold
word: clinical
word: detached
word: egal
word: equal
word: equitable
word: evenhanded
word: fairhanded
word: fair-minded
word: disinterested
word: dispassionate
word: impartial
word: imprejudicate
word: indifferent
word: indistinguishing
word: neuter
word: neutral
word: nonaligned
word: nonpartial
word: nonpartisan
word: nonpersonal
word: objective
word: unbiased
word: unbigoted
word: uninterested
word: unpartial
word: unpartisan
word: unprejudiced
word: unprepossessed
glosses: Not partisan; impartial and unbiased.
Derived terms: nonpartisanism
nonpartisanship
nonpartisan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonpartisans
Etymology: From non- + partisan.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a partisan.
examples: text: “The first thing is that nonpartisans as a group are occasional voters,” Mr. DiCamillo said. “They are not as engaged in politics. They view the parties as being too partisan and migrated to nonpartisan.”
ref: 2008 January 29, Jennifer Steinhauer, “California’s Unaffiliated Voters Are Sometimes Unreachable”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2018:
glosses: A person who has not selected or declared a side or party.
Old Dutch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The earliest extant material in Old Low Franconian (or Old Dutch) is from the 9th century (psalm fragments translated in or around the south of Limburg, i.e. the south-east corner of the Netherlands).
ref: 1989, Hans Frede Nielsen, The Germanic Languages: Origins and Early Dialectal Interrelations, The University of Alabama Press, page 2f:
text: The earliest extant material in Old Dutch (or Old Low Franconian) is from the ninth century (psalm fragments translated in or around the south of Limburg, i.e. the south-east corner of the Netherlands).
ref: 1998, Hans Frede Nielsen, The Continental Backgrounds of English and its Insular Development until 1154, Odense University Press, page 43:
glosses: A branch of Old Low Franconian, with a Frisian substrate, spoken and written during the Middle Ages (c. 9th to 12th century) in the Netherlands and the northern part of present-day Belgium, as well as in areas of northern France along the North Sea coast and adjoining Belgium. This language represents the first attested stage of the Dutch language and its dialects, being succeeded by Middle Dutch in the later Middle Ages.
Synonyms: Old West Low Franconian
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Old Dutch terms
shigellosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʃɪɡəˈloʊsɪs/
ipa: /ˌʃɪɡəˈləʊsɪs/
Forms: form: shigelloses
Etymology: From translingual Shigella + -osis; the former is from the name of Kiyoshi Shiga.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of dysentery caused by intestinal infection with Shigella bacteria
wikipedia: Kiyoshi Shiga
Franconian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹæŋˈkəʊ.nɪ.ən/
ipa: /fɹæŋˈkoʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /fɹæŋˈkoʊ.njən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Franconia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Franconia (region in Bavaria) or its inhabitants.
examples: text: 107. THE LOW FRANCONIAN.—This was spoken on the lower Rhine. The oldest monument in it is the so-called Malberg (i.e. mahal-berg 'mount of justice') Gloss, i.e. Franconian vocables entered as glosses into the Salic Code of Law written in Latin.
ref: 1886, H. A. Strong, Kuno Meyer, Outlines of a history of the German language, p. 68 (https://books.google.com/books?id=OhJKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA68)
glosses: Of or relating to Franconian (dialects descending from Old Frankish, see proper noun below).
Franconian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹæŋˈkəʊ.nɪ.ən/
ipa: /fɹæŋˈkoʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /fɹæŋˈkoʊ.njən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Franconians
Etymology: From Franconia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Franconia.
Franconian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹæŋˈkəʊ.nɪ.ən/
ipa: /fɹæŋˈkoʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /fɹæŋˈkoʊ.njən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Franconia + -an.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A marker for a number of West Germanic languages and dialects spoken in the former core of the Frankish empire: Low Countries (the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg), central-western Germany, and Franconia.
Related terms: word: East Franconian
alt: Middle Low Franconian, Old Low Franconian, Old East Low Franconian
word: Low Franconian
word: Middle Franconian
word: Central Franconian
alt: usually called Old Frankish or simply Frankish
word: Old Franconian
word: Rhine Franconian
word: Rhenish Franconian
word: Upper Franconian
special education
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: special ed
glosses: Any of several educational services designed for students with learning difficulties, mental health problems, or other disabilities.
trash-talk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trash-talks
form: trash talk
form: trashtalk
Senses: glosses: Insults and disparaging comments directed towards a rival.
trash-talk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trash-talks
form: trash-talking
form: trash-talked
form: trash-talked
form: trash talk
form: trashtalk
Senses: examples: text: Paret trash-talked Griffith. Paret called him queer.
ref: 2004 [2000], James Ellroy, Destination: Morgue!, Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: To insult a rival in a disparaging way.
Synonyms: talk trash
Related terms: sledging
psychotherapeutic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more psychotherapeutic
form: most psychotherapeutic
Etymology: From psycho- + therapeutic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to psychotherapeutics (psychotherapy)
glosses: Cathartic
psychotherapeutics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From psycho- + therapeutics.
Senses: glosses: psychotherapy
prognathism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prognathisms
Etymology: From pro- + gnatho- + -ism.
Senses: glosses: An abnormal projection of the jaws.
Related terms: prognathia
prognathic
prognathous
lantern jaw
hypotonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaɪpəʊˈtəʊnɪə/
ipa: /ˌhaɪpoʊˈtoʊnɪə/
rhymes: -təʊnɪə
Forms: form: hypotonias
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: A state of reduced pressure of the intraocular fluid.
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: floppy infant syndrome
floppy baby syndrome
glosses: An abnormal loss of muscle tone.
Synonyms: hypotony
Derived terms: Puerto Rican infant hypotonia syndrome
stereotypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stereotypic
form: most stereotypic
Etymology: From stereotype + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: As the world evolved, so too did the depictions of lesbians and gay men. They became "human," less stereotypic.
ref: 1985 February 2, Tim Broadbent, “Kindred Spirits (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 28, page 10:
glosses: Of, pertaining to or characteristic of a stereotype; stereotypical.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to or characteristic of a stereotypy.
intrant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɪntɹənt/
Forms: form: more intrant
form: most intrant
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin intrans, present participle of intrare (“to enter”).
Senses: glosses: That enters or penetrates.
intrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɪntɹənt/
Forms: form: intrants
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin intrans, present participle of intrare (“to enter”).
Senses: glosses: An entrant, especially one who enters on some public duty.
symptomology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symptomologies
Etymology: From symptom + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: Just looking at the list made her wheeze, but she studied each item carefully, trying to match the abstract language of symptomology to her very real son’s actual behavior.
ref: 2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 146:
glosses: symptomatology.
Related terms: symptomologic
symptomological
symptomologically
symptomologist
Tartars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tartar
underdiagnosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underdiagnosed
form: most underdiagnosed
Etymology: From under- + diagnosed.
Senses: examples: Mood disorders, such as anxiety disorders and major depression, are often described as underdiagnosed and undertreated, in part because people with the disorders often do not seek treatment.
glosses: diagnosed less frequently than its occurrence.
raw_tags: of a disease or symptom
cytogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsaɪtoʊd͡ʒəˈnɛtɪk/
rhymes: stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Etymology: From cytogenesis + -ic (compare genetic § Etymology) = cyto- + genetic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the origin and development of cells.
glosses: Of or pertaining to cytogenetics.
Derived terms: clinicocytogenetic
cytogenetically
cytogenetic band
immunocytogenetic
Related terms: cytogenesis
underachievement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underachievements
Etymology: From under- + achievement.
Senses: examples: text: This underachievement is linked to a laddish culture […]
ref: 2006, Carolyn Jackson, Lads and Ladettes in School: Gender and a Fear of Failure:
glosses: An achievement that is less than expected; underperformance.
Related terms: underachieve
underachiever
underemployment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + employment.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being underemployed.
Related terms: unemployment
malemployment
alleviating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of alleviate
pulmonologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpʊlməˈnɒləd͡ʒɪst/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒɪst
Forms: form: pulmonologists
Etymology: From pulmonology + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: pneumologist
respirologist
glosses: A physician who specializes in pulmonology.
pulmonology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpʊlməˈnɒləd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Forms: form: pulmology
Etymology: From Latin pulmō + -logy.
Senses: synonyms: pneumology
respiratory medicine
respirology
glosses: The branch of medicine dealing with diseases of the lungs and respiratory tract.
Derived terms: pulmonological
pulmonologist
Related terms: pneumological
pneumologist
respirologist
samsara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌmˈsɑɹə/
Forms: form: samsaras
form: saṃsāra
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit संसार (saṃsāra).
Senses: examples: text: Until we are released from the law of karma and reach moksha or deliverance, we will be in samsara or the time process.
ref: 1957, S. Radhakrishnan, C. A. Moore, editors, A Sourcebook in Indian Philosophy, Princeton Univ. Press, page 38:
topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: In Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and some other eastern religions, the ongoing cycle of birth, death, and rebirth endured by human beings and all other mortal beings, and from which release is obtained by achieving the highest enlightenment.
Related terms: reincarnation
metempsychosis
transmigration
complies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kəmˈplaɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of comply
outstripping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outstrip
outstripping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outstrippings
Senses: examples: text: And these outstrippings and outmodings, they assert, were necessary and desirable, considering the internal limitations of the lyric form.
ref: 1994, Herbert A. Leibowitz, Parnassus: Twenty Years of Poetry in Review, page 320:
glosses: The act or process of something being outstripped.
hyposensitivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyposensitivities
Etymology: From hypo- + sensitivity.
Senses: glosses: A lower than normal sensitivity (to a stimulus or an allergen).
Related terms: hyposensitive
theorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of theorize
transactional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more transactional
form: most transactional
Etymology: From transaction + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The primary function of the transactional HR SSC is the performance of the back- and front-office functions and processes through deployment of the operational service delivery capabilities.
ref: 2014, Tanya Bondarouk, Shared Services as a New Organizational Form, →ISBN, page 159:
glosses: Of, pertaining to or involving transactions.
examples: text: Musk’s Israel tour was transparently transactional and frankly insulting. The antisemitic sentiment Musk endorsed had nothing to do with Israel; “replacement theory” is generally an unsupported allegation that Jews and other immigrants in the US and Europe are destroying Western civilization.
ref: 2023 November 28, Jill Filipovic, “Opinion: Elon Musk’s Israel tour was transparently transactional and insulting”, in CNN:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Based on value derived from transactions rather than on morals, ethics, or principles; pragmatic or amoral rather than moral.
glosses: Pertaining to a particular psychoanalytic theory about this.
Derived terms: transactional analysis
transactional distance
transactional interpretation
transactionality
transactional memory
errorless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From error + -less.
Senses: examples: text: At the task level itself, there may be errors of misassessing, mismonitoring, and misrectifying the safety requirements set up to achieve an errorless task accomplishment.
ref: 1987, Shizuko Y. Fagerhaugh, Hazards in Hospital Care: Ensuring Patient Safety, page 127:
text: He had a down year at the plate, hitting just .251 with 14 homers, but was nearly flawless in the field as he posted that record .996 fielding percentage, a 95-game errorless streak, and just three errors all season.
ref: 2004, Jack Walsh, Marshall J Cook, Baseball's Good Guys: The Real Heroes of the Game, →ISBN, page 176:
antonyms: erroneous
errorful
errorous
glosses: Free from errors; accurate, correct.
Derived terms: errorlessly
errorlessness
vasten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vastens
form: vastening
form: vastened
form: vastened
Etymology: From vast + -en (verbal suffix).
Senses: examples: text: And while I gazed in wonder and incipient alarm, straightway the throne and the king seemed strangely to blend into one, and then to grow and expand on all sides; and still vastening, and ever more vastening, it presently rose from the earth, self-moved, tremulous in every part with life, huge, dreadful, with deep rifts, and chasms, and gulfs of darkness.
ref: 1871, The Sunday Magazine, page 425:
glosses: To make or become vast
gastroenterologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastroenterologists
Etymology: From gastroenterology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: For diarrhea caused by a stomach virus or a meal that didn’t agree with you, try the BRAT diet, says James Lee, MD, gastroenterologist with St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, Calif.
ref: 2015 March 31, Linda Melone, “The worst foods to eat when you’re sick, and the best ones”, in CNN:
text: Some gastroenterologists are concerned about the prior authorization policy.
ref: 2023 May 26, Jacqueline Howard and Kyla Russell, “As colorectal cancer rises among younger adults, some seek colonoscopies earlier”, in CNN:
glosses: A physician who specializes in gastroenterology.
Derived terms: hepatogastroenterologist
Related terms: gastroenterology
omits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of omit
celiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːli.æk/
Forms: form: coeliac
form: cœliac
Etymology: From Latin coeliacus, from Ancient Greek κοιλιακός (koiliakós), from κοιλία (koilía, “belly”). Cognate with coelom.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to or located within the abdomen or abdominal cavity.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to c(o)eliac disease.
Derived terms: celiac artery
celiac disease
celiac plexus
celiac sprue
celiac trunk
nonceliac
supraceliac
celiac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːli.æk/
Forms: form: celiacs
form: coeliac
form: cœliac
Etymology: From Latin coeliacus, from Ancient Greek κοιλιακός (koiliakós), from κοιλία (koilía, “belly”). Cognate with coelom.
Senses: glosses: Someone who has celiac disease.
Related terms: gluten-free
celiac disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: US spelling of coeliac disease.
attentional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more attentional
form: most attentional
Etymology: From attention + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The case for a shutdown is this: A shutdown is an attentional event. It’s an effort to turn the diffuse crisis of Trump’s corrupting of the government into an acute crisis that the media, that the public, will actually pay attention to.
ref: 2025 September 7, Ezra Klein, “Stop Funding Trump’s Takeover”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2025:
glosses: Of or pertaining to attention.
Derived terms: attentional bias
attentional blink
attentional focus
attentionally
attentional operator
attentional shift
attentional style
attentional wastage
chikungunya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪkʊŋˈɡʊnjə/
/ˌt͡ʃɪkənˈɡʌnjə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Makonde chikungunya (“that which bends up”), apparently referring to the arthritic effects of the disease. See -kunja, a suffix related to bending. Compare Swahili kunja (“to bend, to fold”).
Senses: examples: text: Chikungunya and dengue arboviral diseases are in expansion throughout the world.
ref: 2007, Didier Fontenille, Anna Bella Failloux, Roberto Romi, “Should we expect Chikungunya and Dengue in Southern Europe?”, in Willem Takken, Bart G. J. Knols, editors, Emerging Pests and Vector-borne Diseases in Europe, page 169:
text: The fever of Chikungunya is characterized by a rapid rise in temperature to as high as 40 C, often accompanied by rigors, myalgia, headache, photophobia, retro-orbital pain, sore throat with objective signs of pharyngitis, nausea, and vomiting.
ref: 2010, Stephen A. Berger, Infectious Diseases of Zimbabwe, page 55:
text: Chikungunya infections are caused by an alphavirus from the family Togaviridae.
ref: 2011, Franz J. Conraths, Thomas C. Mettenleiter, Chapter 13: Infectious Diseases Under the Influence of Changing Environmental Factors, page 256:
glosses: A viral fever caused by the Chikungunya virus, an alphavirus spread by mosquito bites.
oligoantigenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oligoantigenic
form: most oligoantigenic
Etymology: From oligo- + antigenic.
Senses: glosses: hypoallergenic
ritalin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Rita + -lin. Coined by chemist Leandro Panizzon, who synthesized it. Named after Marguerite Panizzon, wife of Leandro. Ritalin, a trade name from the 1940s. Genericization of the trademark.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: methylphenidate, used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Derived terms: ritalinic
Related terms: ritalinic acid
meliorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmiːlɪəɹɪz(ə)m/
Forms: form: meliorisms
Etymology: From Latin melior (“better”) + -ism. Reportedly coined by British author George Eliot in her letters, published in 1877.
Senses: examples: text: At the convention, the official mood was traditional Methodist meliorism.
ref: 1966 May 6, “Forever Beginning”, in Time:
text: Enclaves of meritocratic and virtuous sociability, the lodges exuded […] a thoroughgoing meliorism.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 371:
glosses: The view or doctrine that the world can be improved through human effort (often understood as an intermediate outlook between optimism and pessimism).
wikipedia: George Eliot
Derived terms: meliorist
melioristic
melioristically
reëxtend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹi.ɛksˈtɛnd/
Forms: form: reëxtends
form: reëxtending
form: reëxtended
form: reëxtended
form: reextend
form: re-extend
Etymology: From re- + extend with a diaeresis applied.
Senses: examples: text: But the verge of a period beginning in cretaceous times may have a breadth of tens of thousands of years, not to mention the possible existence of conditions calculated to multiply and reëxtend both species and individuals.
ref: 1924, Marion Randall Parsons, William Frederic Badè, The Writings of John Muir, page 354:
text: We desire now to reëxtend the invitation just reprinted from our first issue, and to reëmphasize the fact of our friendly attitude toward law students.
ref: 1943, [AUTHOR UNKNOWN], The Law Student, page #18
glosses: Rare spelling of re-extend.
reëxtends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹi.ɛksˈtɛndz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reëxtend
reëxtending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹi.ɛksˈtɛndɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reëxtend
reëxtended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹi.ɛksˈtɛndɪd/
Senses: examples: text: While immersed in these thoughts, my eyes fell upon her hand, — it was a small white hand, and I thought it seemed to move; I look more closely, and see that it stretches itself slowly out of the sleeve, spreads the fingers, and rests a little forward on the knee so that it hangs down, and it turns a little to one side, is gathered in and reëxtended again.
ref: 1880, Edmondo de Amicis, translated by Wilhelmina W. Cady, Spain and the Spaniards, page 37:
text: The certificate above referred to is found to be granted under section 6 of the act of Congress of July 5, 1884, which, by the act of May 5, 1892, was extended for ten years, and reëxtended for a further period of ten years by the recent act of April 29, 1902.
ref: 1902, Philippines Bureau of Customs, Chinese and Immigration Circulars (Annotated) … Constructions and…, page 65:
text: It is believed that there is now more interest in the subject of acquiring good land titles and that if this privilege were reëxtended it would now be taken advantage of by a large number of persons.
ref: 1913, Philippines Legislature, Philippine Commission, Journal of the Philippine Commission, page 483:
glosses: simple past and past participle of reëxtend
reextend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reextends
form: reextending
form: reextended
form: reextended
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of re-extend.
Synonyms: reëxtend
reextends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reextend
reextending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reextend
reextended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reextend
re-extend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-extends
form: re-extending
form: re-extended
form: re-extended
form: reextend
form: reëxtend
Etymology: From re- + extend.
Senses: glosses: To extend again.
re-extends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-extend
re-extending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of re-extend
re-extended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-extend
whereunder
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From where + under.
Senses: examples: text: The real bottom cause of the change was the "gentlemen's agreement" between the two party machines whereunder both entered the service of the same master.
ref: 1911, David Graham Phillips, chapter 8, in The Conflict:
glosses: Under which or what.
Related terms: —
henceafter
henceforth
henceforward
henceforwards
hencefrom
hereabout
hereabouts
hereabove
hereafter
hereafters
hereagainst
hereamong
hereanent
hereat
hereaway
herebefore
hereby
herefor
herefore
hereforth
hereforward
hereforwards
herefrom
herehence
hereinabove
hereinafter
hereinbefore
hereinbelow
hereinelsewhere
hereinsoever
hereinto
hereinunder
heremid
hereof
hereon
hereout
hereover
herethrough
herethroughout
hereto
heretofore
hereunto
hereupon
herewith
herewithal
herewithin
herewithout
hitherto
hitherunto
hitherward
hitherwards
howbeit
however
howso
howsoever
howsomedever
howsomever
thataway
thatwise
thenceafter
thenceforth
thenceforward
thenceforwards
thencefrom
thenceout
thereabout
thereabouts
thereabove
thereacross
thereafter
thereafters
thereagain
thereagainst
therealong
thereamong
thereamongst
thereanent
therearound
thereat
thereaway
therebefore
therebeside
therebetween
therebeyond
thereby
therever
therefor
therefore
thereforth
therefrom
therehence
thereinabove
thereinafter
thereinbefore
thereinbelow
thereinto
thereinunder
theremid
thereof
thereon
thereout
thereover
theresoever
therethrough
therethroughout
thereto
theretofore
thereunto
thereup
thereupon
therewith
therewithal
therewithin
therewithout
thisaway
thiswise
thitherinsoever
thitherto
thitherward
thitherwards
whatever
whatso
whatsoever
whatsomedever
whatsomever
whatwise
whenabout
whenabouts
whenas
whenever
whenso
whensoever
whensomever
whenceafter
whencever
whenceforth
whenceforward
whencefrom
whenceward
whencewards
whereabout
whereabouts
whereabove
whereafter
whereafters
whereagainst
wherealong
whereamong
whereamongst
whereanent
wherearound
whereas
whereat
whereaway
wherebefore
wherebeside
wherebetween
wherebeyond
whereby
wherever
wherefor
wherefore
whereforth
wherefrom
wherehence
whereinabove
whereinafter
whereinbefore
whereinbelow
whereinsoever
whereinto
whereinunder
wheremid
whereof
whereon
whereout
whereover
whereso
wheresoever
wheresomever
wherethrough
wherethroughout
whereto
wheretofore
whereunto
whereup
whereupon
wherewith
wherewithal
wherewithin
wherewithout
whitherever
whitherinsoever
whitherso
whitherto
whithertofore
whitherward
whitherwards
whyever
whyfor
whyso
whysoever
1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form
sacrificial anode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacrificial anodes
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: A piece of corrodible metal, attached to a metallic surface to be protected, that is preferentially consumed by electrolytic action
Synonyms: galvanic anode
sacrificial rod
corrodible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more corrodible
form: most corrodible
Etymology: From corrode + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Readily corroded
Derived terms: incorrodible
noncorrodible
mast climbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The provision of powered access to a system of scaffolding by means of a platform fixed to a vertical mast attached to the side of the building under construction or maintenance
Related terms: mast climber
bidders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bidder
hybrids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hybrid
gradients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gradient
cryopreserve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cryopreserves
form: cryopreserving
form: cryopreserved
form: cryopreserved
Etymology: From cryo- + preserve.
Senses: glosses: To preserve something (especially biological tissue) by freezing it and holding it a very low temperature
Related terms: cryopreservation
cryopreserved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cryopreserve
cryopreserved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: preserved by the use of cryopreservation
Derived terms: postcryopreserved
cryopreserving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cryopreserve
cryopreserving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: cryopreservation
minocycline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmʌɪ.nəʊˈsʌɪ.kliːn/
ipa: /ˌmɪn.oʊˈsaɪˌklin/
Etymology: From (a)mino- + -cycline (“tetracycline derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A semisynthetic tetracycline derivative used (as the hydrochloride C₂₃H₂₇N₃O₇·HCl) as a broad-spectrum antibiotic and anti-inflammatory agent to treat bacterial and other infections.
yolky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: yolkier
form: yolkiest
Etymology: From yolk + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Eggs can either be very yolky and produce stereoblastulae or have little to no yolk and produce coeloblastulae.
ref: 2008, Tracey Irene Smart, Reproductive and Larval Biology of the Northeastern Pacific Polychaete Owenia collaris (Family Oweniidae) in Coos Bay, OR (page 8)
text: The egg flew from my hand to the floor, setting off a display of yolky lightning along the way.
ref: 2016, Martin Pousson, chapter 1, in Black Sheep Boy, Los Angeles: Rare Bird Books:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or having the characteristics of yolk.
spermatogonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spermatogonium
spermatogonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermatogonia
form: spermatagonium
Etymology: From spermato- + -gonium.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the undifferentiated cells in the male gonads that become spermatocytes; a spermatoblast
Related terms: megalospermatogonium
spermatogonic
selenological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From selenology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to selenology
mated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mate
mated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: fitted together or interlocked
Derived terms: nonmated
unmated
neurodevelopmental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + developmental.
Senses: examples: text: This supports the broad hypothesis that many of the neurodevelopmental disorders are, to a certain extent, aetiologically linked.
ref: 2015 August 5, Michael O’Donovan, “Novel genetic advances in schizophrenia: an interview with Michael O’Donovan”, in BMC Medicine, volume 13, →DOI:
text: So you know, we have a good case with an increasing body of evidence, supported by a trifecta of research from human epidemiology, animal and in vitro studies, which suggests that prenatal acetaminophen or paracetamol might alter fetal development, increasing the risk of neurodevelopmental disorders.
ref: 2025 September 22, Lauren Gardner, “Co-author of study linking Tylenol to autism says pain reliever still an option”, in POLITICO:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the development of neurological pathways in the brain.
Derived terms: neurodevelopmental disorder
neurodevelopmentally
gastrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastrins
Etymology: Ancient Greek γαστήρ (gastḗr) + -in
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hormone that stimulates the production of gastric acid in the stomach
Derived terms: gastrimmune
gastrinemia
gastrinoma
minigastrin
pentagastrin
progastrin
tetragastrin
gastric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastric acids
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The acidic secretion of the stomach; mostly hydrochloric acid.
Synonyms: gastric juice
stomach acid
workers of the world, unite
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: !
Etymology: Calque of German Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch (literally “working men / proletarians of all countries, unite!”), a phrase which originates in the The Communist Manifesto and is one of the most famous rallying cries of communism.
Senses: glosses: Laborers are encouraged to unionize or otherwise engage in collective action on a global scale in order to use the strength of their numbers to obtain better working conditions.
wikipedia: The Communist Manifesto
playblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playblasts
Etymology: From play + blast.
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: animation
glosses: A low-resolution crude render of computer-generated imagery used in CGI production as a check for character and prop positioning and lighting placement. Curved surfaces are rendered as surfaces with low face count, i.e. faceted.
playblast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: playblasts
form: playblasting
form: playblasted
form: playblasted
Etymology: From play + blast.
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: animation
glosses: To generate a playblast render of.
shigelloses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: plural of shigellosis
unclearly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unclearly
form: most unclearly
Etymology: From unclear + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In such circumstances the liquor, the haste, or the gauze may make me see the woman's face unclearly, her features unclearly, or her skin unclearly; but they do not make me see her fineness of features unclearly, the clearness of her skin unclearly, or the freshness of her face unclearly, when what is meant is that her features are not very fine, her face not very fresh, or her skin not very clear. What these circumstances do is to give me something like illusions, not unclear perceptions.
ref: 2015, Guy Sircello ·, New Theory of Beauty, page 133:
glosses: In an unclear manner.
trash-talks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trash-talk
trash-talks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trash-talk
trash-talking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trash-talk
trash-talked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trash-talk
assumer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assumers
Etymology: From assume + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] and in the context of a grotesque caricature of what the discipline of history is all about for which I would flunk an undergraduate, this self-chosen assumer of the mantle of Amos candidly detailed what was left out of his analysis.
ref: 1987, Jerald C. Brauer, The Lively Experiment Continued, page 231:
glosses: One who assumes.
intrants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intrant
veiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of veil
veiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veilings
Senses: examples: text: […] there are several examples of forced veilings of noblewomen and queens from the early Middle Ages.
ref: 2011, Gwen Seabourne, Imprisoning Medieval Women:
text: Ms. Amini’s alleged crime was “improperly” wearing hijab, violating Iran’s law requiring mandatory veiling.
ref: 2022 September 30, Mahsa Alimardani, Kendra Albert, Afsaneh Rigot, “Big Tech Should Support the Iranian People, Not the Regime”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The act of covering with a veil.
glosses: Material for making veils.
Derived terms: nun's veiling
pinto bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinto beans
Etymology: From Spanish pinto (“painted”), named for its mottled skin.
Senses: glosses: Any bean of several varieties of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), common in the US and Mexico.
reverenced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reverence