cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
line of operations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lines of operations
Senses: examples: text: As a general rule, a line of operations should- be directed upon the centre, or one of the extremities of the enemy's line of defence; unless our forces be infinitely superior in number,
ref: 1846, Henry Halleck, Elements of Military Art and Science:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: That portion of a theater of war which an army passes over in attaining its object.
line of life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lines of life
Senses: synonyms: lifeline
qualifier: palmistry
glosses: A line on the palm of the hand, curving about the base of the thumb, supposed to indicate, by its form or position, the length of a person's life.
Related terms: palmistry
line of sight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lines of sight
form: line-of-sight
Senses: examples: text: in my line of sight
glosses: A straight line along which an observer has a clear view.
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The line which passes through the front and rear sight, at any elevation, when they are sighted at an object.
Synonyms: sightline
Derived terms: BVLOS
VLOS
Related terms: visual field
field of vision
field of view
line tub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: line tubs
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A wooden tub in which the towline aboard a whaleboat is coiled.
civil disobedience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We now had no alternative but to resort to civil disobedience, and we embarked in earnest on preparations for mass action.
ref: 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 146:
glosses: A form of social protest, involving the active but non-violent refusal to obey certain laws, demands, or commands of an established authority, because they are considered to be morally wrong or detrimental.
Related terms: treason
Mason-Dixon Line
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mason–Dixon Line
form: Mason-Dixon line
form: Mason and Dixon line
form: Mason's and Dixon's line
Etymology: Named after English astronomers Charles Mason (1728–1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733–1779).
Senses: examples: text: I am indebted to you for a topic to deny to the Pensylvania claim to a line 39 complete degrees from the equator. As an advocate I shall certainly insist on it; but I wish they would compromise by an extension of Mason & Dixon's line. — They do not agree to the temporary line proposed by our assembly.
ref: 1776, Thomas Jefferson, The Virginia Constitution (Letter to Edmund Pendleton), Philadelphia:
text: The Virginia gentlemen offer to divide exactly the 40th degree with us, […] Perhaps we would be as well off with Mason and Dixon's''' line continued.
ref: 1779, George Bryan, chapter 1779, in William Bradford Reed, editor, Life and Correspondence of Joseph Reed […] , volume 2, Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, published 1847, George Bryan to President Reed, Baltimore, August 31st, 1779, page 134:
text: Suffysit to say I got across Mason & Dixie's line safe at last.
ref: 1861, Artemus Ward, “Thrilling Scenes in Dixie”, in His Book: with Many Comic Illustrations, New-York: Corleton, published 1862, page 204:
glosses: The boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland, as run (1764–1767) by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, that, before abolition, defined part of the northern boundary of states in which slavery was permitted.
examples: text: […] and he tell'd me Georgia would go for me, arter^([sic]) the Gineral^([sic]), as soon as any north of mason and dickson^([sic]).
ref: 1833, Charles Augustus Davis, “Letter III […] ”, in Letters of Jack Downing, Major […] , New-York: Harper & brothers, published 1834, page 36:
text: The epistles are not dated far apart; and in the second, the writer, who dwelleth near ‘Mason and Dixon,’ descants upon the awful climate hereabout in the summer months.
ref: 1843, Charles Fenno Hoffman, John Holmes Agnew, “Editor's Table”, in The Knickerbocker; Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, volume 22, New-York: John Allen, page 185:
text: The Soviet press was disseminating in Africa and Asia stories about black children in the South being denied adequate schooling, black accident victims dying because no white hospital in the South would admit them, and African diplomats being refused access to white restaurants and washrooms while traveling south of the Mason-Dixon line.
ref: 2022, Gary Gerstle, chapter 2, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, Part I. The New Deal Order, 1930–1980:
glosses: The boundary between the free and slave states at the time of the American Civil War, or between states with different segregationist policies in the Jim Crow era.
Mason-Dixon line
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Mason-Dixon Line.
Mason and Dixon line
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mason-Dixon Line.
on the line
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: On a level with the eye of the observer, as of a picture hung in on a wall.
examples: text: The survival of the company is on the line with this project.
text: I have a stalker. My life is on the line!
ref: 2007 January 21, Valerie Ahern, Christian McLaughlin, “Come Play wiz Me”, in Desperate Housewives, season 3, spoken by Gabrielle Solis (Eva Longoria):
text: The 40-year-old is happy to put his body on the line in other ways, swapping a mug of tea for a fan’s double pint of lager and messily necking it in one.
ref: 2019 January 26, Kitty Empire, “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in The Guardian:
text: War or peace? Dictatorship or democracy? Europe’s future is on the line [title]
ref: 2023 December 13, Timothy Garton Ash, “War or peace? Dictatorship or democracy? Europe’s future is on the line”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: at stake
on the rocks
glosses: At risk, as in a contest or enterprise.
examples: text: I have John on the line for you.
glosses: Currently calling on the telephone.
examples: text: The ball was on the line but the umpire ruled it out.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: On one of the lines marked on a playing field or court; (by extension) within bounds.
Derived terms: ass on the line
lay on the line
line of force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lines of force
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An imaginary line in a field of force, whose tangent at any point gives the direction of the field at that point and whose number through unit area perpendicular to the field represents its intensity.
line of beauty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lines of beauty
Senses: examples: text: Every line is the line of beauty; it is only fumble and bungle which cannot draw a line. This only is ugliness. That is not a line which doubts and hesitates in the midst of its course.
ref: 1880, William Blake, “Public Address and Memoranda by Blake of his mode of Engraving”, in Life of William Blake, volume 2:
qualifier: fine arts
glosses: A curved line that is supposedly inherently beautiful. It is represented in different ways by different authors, although usually as a kind of elongated S (like the one in William Hogarth’s painting in this entry).
wikipedia: William Hogarth
Related terms: ogee
water-line model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water-line models
Senses: examples: text: Assuming the body-plan to be already swept in by the diagonal lines, (it matters not for our present purpose whether they are swept in the half-breadth,) we may now divide the body-plan into sections parallel to the base-line, as high as the load-line of flotation; and on those assumed water-lines take the half-breadths, the same as we would were we laying down a water-line model, or laying down the water-lines, which in fact we would be.
ref: 1854, John Willis Griffiths, Treatise on Marine and Naval Architecture, page 195:
text: The larger the boat, the more can these dimensions be exaggerated, and we are afraid that a model to scale would be very "crank." A 20-in. water-line model of the design given could not comfortably carry more than 400 sq. ins., and it would be advisable to drop the keel another inch to make the draught about 4½ ins.
ref: 1902 June 15, “Queries and Replies”, in The Model Engineer and Practical Electrician, volume 6, page 282:
text: Until 1794 ships had been built from skeleton models composed of pieces that showed the frames, keel, stem, and stern post, but were of little use in giving an accurate idea of the form of a vessel, while it required much time and labor to transfer the lines of the model to the mould loft. In this year, however, Orlando Merrill, a young shipbuilder of Newburyport, at that time thirty-one years old, invented the water-line model, which was composed of lifts joined together, originally by dowels and later by screws.
ref: 1911, Arthur Hamilton Clark, The Clipper Ship Era 1843-1869:
text: This is a water-line model, and was presented to the Museum by the North German Lloyd.
ref: 1927, Report on the Progress and Condition of the U.S. National Museum, page 114:
text: You have a choice of building a water-line model as pictured at the top of the page or a keel model as detailed in the plans.
ref: 1952 December, Wayne C. Leckey, “Thirty-six in. model of the SS United States”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 98, number 6, page 182:
topics: business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
glosses: a model of a vessel formed of boards which are shaped according to the water lines as shown in the plans and laid upon each other to form a solid model
line up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪnˈʌp/
ipa: /lɑenˈɐp/
ipa: /laɪnˈɐp/
ipa: [lɑe̯nˈɐp]
ipa: /ˈlaɪn.ʌp/
ipa: /ˈlɑen.ɐp/
ipa: /ˈlaɪn.ɐp/
ipa: [ˈlɑe̯n.ɐp]
Forms: form: lines up
form: lining up
form: lined up
form: lined up
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To align; to put in alignment; to put in correct adjustment for smooth running.
glosses: To put things in a line.
examples: text: For the steam services, passengers with reserved seats are assembled behind the appropriate notice boards in the centre cab road, which is barred to motor traffic on summer Saturdays. Unreserved passengers line up behind other boards, which merely display destinations and not departure times.
ref: 1962 April, J. N. Faulkner, “Summer Saturday at Waterloo”, in Modern Railways, page 263:
synonyms: queue up
hypernyms: wait one's turn
glosses: To get into a line; especially, so as to wait one's turn.
examples: text: The Nigerian forward lined up on the left of a front three with Keane in the middle and Frederic Piquionne on the right, and it was from Keane's lay-off that the former Portsmouth striker curled a shot straight at Ben Foster on 20 minutes.
ref: 2011 February 6, Alistair Magowan, “West Ham 0 - 1 Birmingham”, in BBC:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To start a game in a certain position on the playing field.
examples: text: A number of famous actors and musicians have been lined up for the celebrations.
text: OK, with this guy being so great, the best offensive lineman in football, we lined up an interview. We showed up at Redskin Park in suburban Washington, D.C., near Dulles Airport, on a beautiful morning for a chat with this Jim Lachey.
ref: 1992 October, Steve Buckley, “Boss Hog: Jim Lachey is the best offensive lineman in football playing on the best team in football”, in Sport, volume 83, number 10, →ISSN, page 63:
glosses: To make arrangements for an event.
examples: text: The final vote between Hollande and Sarkozy now depends on a delicate balance of how France's total of rightwing and leftwing voters line up.
ref: 2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in the Guardian:
glosses: To support a group or movement.
examples: text: Fury Road is a long way away from being a political tract, but it is a story about heroic women overcoming the influence of a predatory, proprietary, evil man, and I do think that matters. In any case, I’ve been doing my best to enjoy politically repellant action movies for my entire life, and I can’t even tell you how great it is that my favorite action movie of all time happens to have ideas about life that line up with my own. That’s one of Fury Road’s many miracles.
ref: 2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: To agree or correspond.
topics: railways
trains
transport
glosses: To have switches set so the train is capable of moving along its correct route.
Derived terms: word: line-up
word: lineup
line up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪnˈʌp/
ipa: /lɑenˈɐp/
ipa: /laɪnˈɐp/
ipa: [lɑe̯nˈɐp]
ipa: /ˈlaɪn.ʌp/
ipa: /ˈlɑen.ɐp/
ipa: /ˈlaɪn.ɐp/
ipa: [ˈlɑe̯n.ɐp]
Forms: form: line ups
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of lineup.
glosses: A haircut where the front region of a person's hair is shaved to form a crisp line between their hair and the shaved region, sometimes coordinated to create a smooth transition between their hair and beard.
battle ship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battle ships
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of battleship.
all your base are belong to us
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Mistranslation of Japanese 君達の基地は、全てCATSがいただいた (literally “we (CATS) have taken all of your bases”). This grammatically incorrect "Engrish" phrase originated in the English subtitles of the 1991 European Sega Mega Drive version of the 1989 Japanese arcade game Zero Wing and became a catchphrase and meme on the Internet in the early 2000s.
Senses: glosses: Used to tout victory over an opponent, or simply as a humorous catchphrase.
wikipedia: Sega Mega Drive
Zero Wing
Synonyms: word: AYBABTU
Derived terms: all your X are belong to us
line of battle ship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: line of battle ships
Senses: examples: text: I have said that our roof was decidedly Biblical in style; but to make it a dry one, something of a nautical character was added to its architecture, for on either side were scuppers, and it was slightly arched in the centre; it was commonly said that two masts, a bowsprit and a swivel gun would have transformed our dwelling into a line-of-battle ship[.]
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 112:
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: A ship of the line or battleship.
get with the program
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets with the program
form: getting with the program
form: got with the program
form: gotten with the program
form: get with the programme
Senses: examples: text: When the student was behind on his vocabulary, the teacher said, "get with the program!"
glosses: To become organized, current, or aware; to adopt the prevailing viewpoint.
examples: text: Though natural gas prices dropped, the folks doing solar didn't get with the program.
text: In the first season of Stranger Things, no character was more extra than Steve Harrington — Nancy Wheeler’s frequently possessive, largely confused, often douchey boyfriend. Though he eventually got with the program and helped fight some monsters, he wasn’t exactly what you’d call the pick of the litter.
ref: 2017 November 7, Aja Romano, “The unlikely breakout star of Stranger Things 2 is unlikelier babysitter Steve Harrington”, in Vox:
glosses: To work productively toward the objective of a shared enterprise, especially after the objective or the environment has changed.
examples: text: Dude, get with the program! We don't do casual Fridays any more.
glosses: To comply with the norms of a social group, especially a shared enterprise; to comply with the accepted or prevailing way of doing things.
Synonyms: sense: become aware
word: get a clue
sense: stay current
word: get with it
sense: stay current
word: get with the times
sense: stay current
word: move with the times
sense: stay current
word: keep up with the times
sense: become organized
word: be on top of things
word: get
word: be on the same page
Related terms: get one's act together
ditty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪti/
homophone: diddy (t-flapping)
rhymes: -ɪti
Forms: form: ditties
Etymology: From Middle English dite, ditee, from Old French ditie or dité, from ditier, from Latin dictāre (participle dictatus).
Senses: examples: text: The Acme mattress ditty has been stuck in my head all day.
text: religious, martial, or civil ditties
ref: [1644], [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London: […] Thomas Underhill and/or Thomas Johnson], →OCLC:
text: And to the warbling lute soft ditties sing.
ref: 1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “(please specify the page)”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London: [Andrew Hebb […]], →OCLC:
glosses: A short, simple verse or song.
examples: text: O, too high ditty for my simple rime.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 50:
glosses: A saying or utterance, especially one that is short and frequently repeated.
glosses: Ellipsis of ditty bag.
ditty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪti/
homophone: diddy (t-flapping)
rhymes: -ɪti
Forms: form: ditties
form: dittying
form: dittied
form: dittied
Etymology: From Middle English dite, ditee, from Old French ditie or dité, from ditier, from Latin dictāre (participle dictatus).
Senses: examples: text: Beasts fain would sing; birds ditty to their notes.
ref: [1633], George Herbert, edited by [Nicholas Ferrar], The Temple. Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel; and are to be sold by Francis Green, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To sing; to warble a little tune.
Related terms: ditty bag
ditty box
doggerel
jingle
ditty bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ditty bags
Etymology: Suggested to be a clipping of commodity bag, a British naval term.
Senses: glosses: A small bag used to carry one's personal effects or toiletries while traveling.
synonyms: sailor's housewife
glosses: A sailor's small bag to hold thread, needles, tape, etc.; a housewife.
synonyms: mess bag
dilly bag
mess kit
glosses: A Girl Guide's bag to hold dishes and cutlery, usually made of mesh fabric or sewn dishtowel.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A bag used to hold costume pieces that do not hang on hangers, such as socks or gloves.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A cameraman's bag containing various small tools.
jingle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪŋɡl̩/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪŋɡ(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl
Forms: form: jingles
form: gingle
Etymology: The verb, which is older than the noun, is from Middle English gyngle. Onomatopoeic; compare jangle.
Senses: examples: text: He heard the jingle of her keys in the door and turned off the screen.
glosses: The sound of metal or glass clattering against itself.
examples: text: Her tambourine didn't come with any jingles attached.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A small piece of metal attached to a musical instrument, such as a tambourine, so as to make a jangling sound when the instrument is played.
examples: text: That used-car dealership's jingle has been stuck in my head since we heard that song.
text: The best of friends become the worst of enemies when Barney makes a hilarious attack ad where he viciously pummels a cardboard cut-out of Homer before special guest star Linda Ronstadt joins the fun to both continue the attack on the helpless Homer stand-in and croon a slanderously accurate, insanely catchy jingle about how “Mr. Plow is a loser/And I think he is a boozer.”
ref: 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
topics: advertising
broadcasting
business
entertainment
lifestyle
marketing
media
music
coordinate_terms: clock chime
theme music
glosses: A memorable short song, or in some cases a snippet of a popular song with its lyrics modified, used for the purposes of advertising a product or service in a TV or radio commercial.
examples: text: They drove in a jingle across Cork while it was still early morning and Stephen finished his sleep in a bedroom of the Victoria Hotel.
ref: 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press Ltd, page 85:
glosses: A carriage drawn by horses.
examples: text: Give me a jingle when you find out something.
synonyms: bell
ring
tinkle
glosses: A brief telephone call.
glosses: A jingle shell.
examples: text: If all you folks who donate your hard-earned jingle to PETA aren't convinced of your ill-advised ways yet, you should probably check this out.
ref: 2004, “P.E.T.A.”, in Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, season 2, episode 1:
glosses: Coin money.
glosses: Pee, urine.
Derived terms: crambo-jingle
give someone a jingle
jingle bell
jingle-brains
jingle-jangle
jingle mail
jingling Johnny
jingle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪŋɡl̩/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪŋɡ(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl
Forms: form: jingles
form: jingling
form: jingled
form: jingled
form: gingle
Etymology: The verb, which is older than the noun, is from Middle English gyngle. Onomatopoeic; compare jangle.
Senses: examples: text: The beads jingled as she walked.
text: He heard then a warm heavy sigh, softer, as she turned over and the loose brass quoits of the bedstead jingled. Must get those settled really.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[IV]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 54:
glosses: To make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
examples: text: She jingled the beads as she walked.
glosses: To cause to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
examples: text: jingling street ballads
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XV, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
glosses: To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
glosses: To pee, to urinate.
Derived terms: ajingle
jingler
jinglesome
jinglet
jinglingly
jingly
Related terms: jangle
clink
rattle
toiletries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toiletry
toiletry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɔɪlɪtɹi/
Forms: form: toiletries
Etymology: From toilet + -ry.
Senses: glosses: Any item used for personal hygiene or grooming (for one's toilet).
Synonyms: word: toiletry
Hypernyms: word: artifact
Hyponyms: word: cosmetic
word: makeup
word: blusher
word: eye shadow
word: eyebrow pencil
word: eyeliner
word: lash line
word: lip gloss
word: lippy
word: lipstick
word: nail polish
word: mascara
word: antiperspirant
word: deodorant
word: perfume
word: cologne
word: eau de toilette
word: toilet water
word: pomade
word: mouthwash
word: shaving cream
word: razor
word: toothbrush
word: toothpaste
word: shampoo
word: shower gel
word: soap
word: comb
word: hairbrush
word: chapstick
word: skin cream
word: sunscreen
word: sunblock
Derived terms: toiletry bag
toiletry kit
Related terms: word: :Category:Makeup
word: W:Toiletry
ablutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ablution
glosses: A building that houses bathing and toilet facilities on a military base.
ablutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The location or building where the showers and basins are located.
competent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmpətənt/
Forms: form: more competent
form: most competent
Etymology: From Middle English competent, conpetent, from Old French competent (modern French compétent), from Latin competens, competentem, present participle of competō (“coincide, be equal to, be capable of”). Compare Dutch competent (“competent”), German kompetent (“competent”), Danish kompetent (“competent”).
Senses: examples: text: He is a competent skier and an expert snowboarder.
text: I believe in that myself because it has been explained by competent men as the convolutions of the grey matter.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
text: That as a competent keyless citizen he had proceeded energetically from the unknown to the known through the incertitude of the void.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
glosses: Having sufficient skill, knowledge, ability, or qualifications.
examples: text: For any disagreements arising from this contract, the competent court shall be the Springfield Circuit Court.
text: judicial authority having competent jurisdiction
topics: law
glosses: Having jurisdiction or authority over a particular issue or question.
examples: text: For if they [birds] had been Viviparous, the burthen of their womb, if they had brought forth any competent number at a time, had been ſo big and heavy, that their wings would have failed them, and ſo every body would have had the wit to catch the Old one.
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 67
glosses: Adequate for the purpose.
examples: text: a competent sphincter;   a competent cervix;   a competent immune system
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
qualifier: tissue; or system; tissue; or system
glosses: Functionally in order; functioning adequately.
raw_tags: of an organ
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Permeable to foreign DNA.
raw_tags: of a cell wall
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Resistant to deformation or flow.
Derived terms: word: angiocompetent
word: chemocompetent
word: competently
word: dyscompetent
word: electrocompetent
word: fibrocompetent
word: hypercompetent
word: immunocompetent
word: incompetent
word: melanocompetent
word: multicompetent
word: neurocompetent
word: noncompetent
english: litotic form
translation: litotic form
word: non-incompetent
word: omnicompetent
word: osmocompetent
word: osteocompetent
word: precompetent
word: retrocompetent
word: rhizocompetent
word: supercompetent
word: thermocompetent
word: ultracompetent
Related terms: bicompetent
compete
competence
competentness
competition
tricompetent
qualifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃənz/
ipa: /ˌkwɒlɪfɪˈkeɪʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of qualification
longevous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɒnˈd͡ʒiː.vəs/
ipa: /lɒŋˈd͡ʒiː.vəs/
ipa: /lɑnˈd͡ʒiː.vəs/
ipa: /lɔnˈd͡ʒiː.vəs/
rhymes: -iːvəs
Forms: form: more longevous
form: most longevous
Etymology: From Latin longaevus, from longus (“long”) + aevum (“age”).
Senses: examples: text: Grandfather was incredibly longevous: he lived to be 105 years old.
glosses: Long-lasting, especially of life.
Synonyms: long-lived
permanent
lasting
Derived terms: longevously
Related terms: age
centenarian
longevity
calli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of callus
heterotypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Heterotypic continuity refers to the presence of one disorder at an early point in time predicting the presence of a different disorder later in life.
ref: 2014, Karestan C. Koenen, Ezra Susser, editors, A Life Course Approach to Mental Disorders, page 201:
glosses: Of or involving a different type or types.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to the first nuclear division in meiosis.
Synonyms: taxonomic
Derived terms: heterotypic synonym
homotypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Said of a taxon name which shares the exact same type as a different name and thus must necessarily refer to the same taxon.
glosses: Synonym of homotypal.
synonyms: word: homotypal
Synonyms: topics: zoology
biology
natural-sciences
word: objective synonym
Related terms: homotype
homotypic synonym
KBS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Initialism of Korean Broadcasting System.
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Initialism of Kyoto Broadcasting System.
glosses: Initialism of Kellogg Biological Station.
KBS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: artificial intelligence
glosses: Initialism of Knowledge-based systems.
maned wolf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maned wolves
Senses: glosses: One of species Chrysocyon brachyurus, the largest canid of South America,.
canid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪnəd/
ipa: /ˈkænəd/
Forms: form: canids
Senses: examples: text: The jaw indicates the beginning of a long tradition of the interment of dogs with people, which reveals a deep attachment between some people and canids.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 189:
glosses: Any member of the family Canidae, including canines (dogs, wolves, coyotes and jackals) and vulpines (foxes).
Synonyms: word: canid
Hypernyms: word: mammal
Hyponyms: word: bush dog
word: coyote
word: dhole
word: dog
word: fox
word: jackal
word: maned wolf
word: raccoon dog
word: wolf
senso lato
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of sensu lato.
senso stricto
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: The direct effect of a treaty provision is usually defined senso stricto, as the creation of rights in favour of individuals which they can invoke before their national courts, without need for domestic measures of implementation.
ref: 1998, Anne-Marie Slaughter, The European Court and National Courts: Doctrine & Jurisprudence: Legal Change in its Social Context:
glosses: Misspelling of sensu stricto.
South American sea lion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: South American sea lions
Senses: glosses: A sea lion, Otaria flavescens, found on the Chilean, Peruvian, Uruguayan and Argentine coasts, with a very large head with an upturned snout.
Norden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A loanword from Scandinavian languages, referring to the Nordic countries or to northern Europe.
Senses: glosses: Various places, including:
A hamlet in Corfe Castle parish, Dorset, England, formerly in Purbeck district (OS grid ref SY9483).
glosses: Various places, including:
A suburban village in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD8514).
glosses: Various places, including:
A village in Nevada County, California, United States.
glosses: Various places, including:
A township in Pennington County, Minnesota, United States.
glosses: Various places, including:
An unincorporated community in Keya Paha County, Nebraska, United States, named after Norden in Germany.
glosses: Various places, including:
A town in Aurich district, Lower Saxony, Germany.
glosses: A surname.
Norden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nordens
Etymology: A loanword from Scandinavian languages, referring to the Nordic countries or to northern Europe.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Norden bombsight.
Hirsch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Coalfields, Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: A surname from Yiddish.
Derived terms: Hirsch funnel
aspic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæspɪk/
Forms: form: aspics
Etymology: Borrowed from French aspic, from Latin aspis, and possibly influenced by French basilic (“basilisk”). The culinary sense may come from association with the snake due to the traditional colors and cold temperature of aspic, in addition to the fact that the gelatin was often molded in a shape similar to a coiled snake.
Senses: examples: text: “Put a little aspic in the mould, so as to cover the bottom ···“
ref: 1819, Frederick Nutt, Nutt, F. (1819). The Imperial and Royal Cook. Consisting of the Most Sumptuous Made Dishes ... Including the Latest Improvements in Fashionable Life. 2nd Ed. United Kingdom: Samuel Leigh: Baldwin, Cradock; Joy. - p.265
glosses: A meat or fish jelly.
examples: text: "I don't know what you mean, Mr. Wynand," whispered Keating. His eyes fixed upon the tomato aspic on his salad plate; it was soft and shivering; it made him sick.
ref: 1943, Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 441:
glosses: A dish in which ingredients are set into a gelatine, jelly-like substance made from a meat stock or consommé.
examples: text: This is an aspic's trail: and these fig-leaves / Have slime upon them, such as the aspic leaves.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: (With that she tore her robe apart, and half / The polished argent of her breast to sight / Laid bare. Thereto she pointed with a laugh, / Showing the aspic's bite. )
ref: 1833, Lord Alfred Tennyson, A Dream of Fair Women:
glosses: An asp, a small venomous snake of Egypt.
glosses: A light cannon firing a two-pound ball.
Derived terms: preserved in aspic
Related terms: brawn
head cheese
meat jelly
aspic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæspɪk/
Etymology: Borrowed from French aspic, from Latin aspis, and possibly influenced by French basilic (“basilisk”). The culinary sense may come from association with the snake due to the traditional colors and cold temperature of aspic, in addition to the fact that the gelatin was often molded in a shape similar to a coiled snake.
Senses: examples: text: Timeless mother, / How is it that your aspic nipples / For once vent honey?
ref: 1923, Wallace Stevens, “In the Carolinas”, in Harmonium, Faber and Faber, published 2001, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: Aspish; relating to an asp, a small venomous snake of Egypt.
befuddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈfʌdl/
rhymes: -ʌdl
Forms: form: befuddles
form: befuddling
form: befuddled
form: befuddled
Etymology: From be- + fuddle.
Senses: examples: text: The explanation left him completely befuddled.
text: Slowly the ape-man picked out the meaning of the various combinations of letters on the printed page, and as he read, the little bugs, for as such he always thought of the letters, commenced to run about in a most confusing manner, blurring his vision and befuddling his thoughts.
ref: 1916, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Nightmare”, in Jungle Tales of Tarzan, A. C. McClurg:
synonyms: word: addle
word: baffle
word: lose
word: stick
word: stump
word: baffound
word: bamboozle
word: bedevil
word: befuddle
word: throw
word: bemuse
word: bewilder
word: bumfuzzle
word: complicate
word: confound
word: confuddle
word: confuse
word: confuzzle
word: dazzle
word: discombobulate
word: disconcert
word: dumbfound
word: ferhoodle
word: flabagast
word: flabbergast
word: flabbergaster
word: flurry
word: fluster
word: flummox
word: fuddle
word: jumble
word: knot
word: mix up
word: perplex
word: puzzle
glosses: To perplex, confuse (someone).
examples: text: […] to the American and French alcoholics, who drink in order to get drunk and befuddle the brain
ref: 1983, Basile Kerblay, Modern Soviet Society, page 290:
glosses: To stupefy (someone), especially with alcohol.
Derived terms: befuddled
befuddlement
befuddler
befuddling
confuddle
gelatine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛlətiːn/
other: /ˈd͡ʒɛlətɪn/
Forms: form: gelatines
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gelatin.
Derived terms: bromogelatine
gelatinelike
gelatino-
gelatinolysis
gelatinolytic
gelatine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛlətiːn/
other: /ˈd͡ʒɛlətɪn/
Forms: form: gelatines
form: gelatining
form: gelatined
form: gelatined
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gelatin.
gelatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛlətɪn/
note: less often
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛlətiːn/
Forms: form: gelatins
form: gelatine
Etymology: Borrowed from French gélatine (“jelly, gel”), from Italian gelatina (“jelly, gel”), from gelare (“to freeze”), from Latin gelō (“to freeze”).
Senses: glosses: A protein derived through partial hydrolysis of the collagen extracted from animal skin, bones, cartilage, ligaments, etc.
glosses: An edible jelly made from this material.
examples: text: For both images I placed a Kodak 4.0 neutral-density gelatin filter over the lens to reduce the Sun's brightness.
ref: 2010 April, Frank Zullo, “Imaging Prehistoric Sunrises”, in Astronomy, volume 38, number 4, page 50:
glosses: A thin, translucent membrane used as a filter for photography or for theatrical lighting effects.
Synonyms: E441 when used as a gelling agent
Derived terms: ballistic gelatin
blasting gelatin
bromogelatin
degelatinise
explosive gelatin
gel
gelatigenous
gelatinase
gelatinate
gelatination
gelatini
gelatiniferous
gelatiniform
gelatinify
gelatinisation
gelatinization
gelatinise
gelatinize
gelatinlike
gelatinoid
gelatinolytic
gelatinous
gelatin salad
metagelatin
nitrogelatin
photogelatin
progelatinase
gelatin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛlətɪn/
note: less often
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛlətiːn/
Forms: form: gelatins
form: gelatining
form: gelatined
form: gelatined
form: gelatine
Etymology: Borrowed from French gélatine (“jelly, gel”), from Italian gelatina (“jelly, gel”), from gelare (“to freeze”), from Latin gelō (“to freeze”).
Senses: glosses: To coat with gelatin.
postprandial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpəʊs(t)ˈpɹan.dɪ.əl/
ipa: /ˌpoʊs(t)ˈpɹæn.di.əl/
Forms: form: post-prandial
Etymology: From post- + prandial.
Senses: examples: text: postprandial somnolence
translation: food coma
english: food coma
text: As a post-prandial speaker, however, Thackeray was undeniably the reverse of felicitous.
ref: 1894, George Augustus Sala, Things I Have Seen and People I Have Known, volume I, London: Cassell and Company, page 32:
text: The Arch-Vicar is picking his teeth. There is a comfortable, postprandial silence.
ref: 1948 August, Aldous Huxley, “The Script”, in Ape and Essence, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 135:
text: Patients who demonstrate significant insulin resistance at diagnosis and require insulin therapy may alternate preprandial and postprandial evaluations to enable more rapid optimization of control by using an additional supplemental insulin sliding scale as needed to cover preprandial hyperglycaemia (>100 ml per dl)[…].
ref: 2007, Margarita de Veciana, Arthur T. Evans, “Endocrine Disorders: Diabetes”, in Arthur T. Evans, editor, Manual of Obstetrics, 7th edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 285:
text: The standardized analysis of metabolic parameters in the preprandial and postprandial state may provide important functional clues for the diagnosis of metabolic disorders.
ref: 2010, Johannes Zschocke, “Function Tests”, in Georg F. Hoffmann, Johannes Zschocke, William L[eo] Nyhan, editors, Inherited Metabolic Diseases: A Clinical Approach, Heidelberg: Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, page 347, column 1:
text: Intimate, discreet and modestly quite proud of itself, it [the book] has the tone of the postprandial speech that Bannister gave at Pembroke College to 120 of his friends, looking over his life, like the portrait on the panelled walls of himself as Master.
ref: 2014 May 6, Nicholas Shakespeare, “Twin Tracks by Roger Bannister”, in The Daily Telegraph:
text: The slight increase in pre-prandial and post-prandial bile acids are suggestive of hepatic dysfunction, but other causes of slight elevations, such as pancreatic or gastrointestinal disease, cannot be ruled out.
ref: 2015, “Answers”, in Kathleen P. Freeman, Stefanie Klenner, editors, Veterinary Clinical Pathology: A Case-based Approach, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 132:
text: But the most egregious transgression, at least in her opinion, is his postprandial habit of chomping and crunching on nuts.
ref: 2020 May 25, Abby Ellin, “Couples Who Eat Together May Not Stay Together”, in New York Times:
glosses: After a meal, especially after dinner.
Synonyms: word: postmeal
word: postcibal
Derived terms: idiopathic postprandial syndrome
postprandial dip
postprandially
Related terms: preprandially
prandial
food coma
manipulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈnɪp.jʊ.leɪt/
ipa: /məˈnɪp.jə.leɪt/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmanɪp(j)ʊˌleʈ/
Forms: form: manipulates
form: manipulating
form: manipulated
form: manipulated
Etymology: Back-formation from manipulation.
Senses: glosses: To move, arrange or operate something using the hands
examples: text: manipulate data
text: The software can manipulate images easily.
glosses: To influence, manage, direct, control or tamper with something
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To handle and move a body part, either as an examination or for a therapeutic purpose
examples: text: cleverly manipulate
text: She knew how to manipulate people to get her way.
glosses: To influence or control someone in order to achieve a specific purpose, especially one that is unknown to the one being manipulated and beneficial to the manipulator; to use
glosses: To use the hands, especially in scientific experiments.
Derived terms: word: manipulable
word: manipulatable
word: manipulatee
word: manipulative
word: manipulator
word: manipulatory
word: manipulatrix
word: manipulee
word: manipulism
word: micromanipulate
word: micromanipulated
word: mismanipulate
word: nonmanipulated
word: outmanipulate
word: overmanipulate
word: remanipulate
word: telemanipulate
word: unmanipulated
Related terms: word: manipulandum
word: manipulation
word: pedipulate
tinta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tintas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish tinta. Doublet of tint.
Senses: synonyms: tent wine
glosses: A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain.
glosses: Tinta roriz; tempranillo.
glosses: Tinta barroca; a grape variety used in the production of Portuguese port wine.
glosses: Tinta Francesa; cabernet franc.
glosses: Tinta miúda; a lesser-known grape variety that is used in blends of some Portuguese wines.
Related terms: tent
tent wine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tent wines
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:tent wine.
glosses: A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain
Synonyms: tent
tinta
hundert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hunderts
Senses: glosses: hundred
linnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪnɪt/
rhymes: -ɪnɪt
Forms: form: linnets
Etymology: From Old French linette, from lin (“flax”), from the bird's fondness for the seeds of flax, the source of linen and Old English līnete, līnetwige (“linnet”) (> dialectal English lintwhite).
Senses: examples: text: ⁠I do but sing because I must,
And pipe but as the linnets sing:
And unto one her note is gay,
⁠For now her little ones have ranged;
⁠And unto one her note is changed,
Because her brood is stol’n away.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 36:
text: I heard a linnet courting
His lady in the spring […]
ref: 1890, Robert Bridges, The Shorter Poems of Robert Bridges, Book I, V:
glosses: A small passerine bird, the common linnet (Linaria cannabina, syn. Carduelis cannabina), in the finch family Fringillidae, native to Europe, western Asia, and north Africa.
glosses: A house finch (Haemorhous mexicanus), of North America.
Synonyms: sense: common linnet et al
word: lintwhite
Derived terms: taxonomic: Linaria cannabina
alt: syn. Carduelis cannabina
word: common linnet
word: green linnet
word: linnet hole
taxonomic: Linaria johannis
alt: syn. Carduelis johannis
word: Warsangli linnet
word: Yemen linnet Linaria yemenensis
word: syn. Carduelis yemenensis)
Ratte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rattes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ratte (“kind of potato”).
Linnean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Linne + -ean, with Linne in turn being from Swedish Linné.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Linnaean.
naturalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naturalists
Etymology: From natural + -ist. Piecewise doublet of naturalista.
Senses: examples: text: It has also been asserted, by some naturalists, that men do not attain their full growth and strength till thirty; but that women arrive at maturity by twenty.
ref: 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:
qualifier: except as merged with later senses
glosses: A natural philosopher; a scientist.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A person who believes in or advocates the tenets of philosophical or methodological naturalism.
examples: text: I will leave off all my childish fooleries and diversions, and set about studying with such a rage, that when you come back next year, you may find the tongue I have now in my mouth more forky than that of some serpents mentioned by Pliny the naturalist.
ref: a. 1776, Joseph Baretti, “Dialogue the Fortieth”, in Easy Phraseology for the Use of Those Persons Who Intend to Learn the Colloquial Part of the Italian Language, 1835 edition, Turin: Joseph Bocca, page 236:
glosses: An expert in natural history or the study of plants and animals.
topics: art
arts
glosses: A creative artist who attempts to faithfully represent nature; an adherent of artistic naturalism.
Derived terms: antinaturalist
nonnaturalist
religious naturalist
spiritual naturalist
Related terms: word: naturalism
english: not to be confused
translation: not to be confused
word: naturist
naturalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more naturalist
form: most naturalist
Etymology: From natural + -ist. Piecewise doublet of naturalista.
Senses: examples: text: Trinity received “Birds of America” in 1900 as a gift from Dr. Gordon Russell, a physician and alumnus who was a collector of ornithological and naturalist art.
ref: 1985 July 21, Eleanor Charles, “Connecticut Guide”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015:
text: Its author – Henry Handel Richardson was the nom de plume of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson – had indeed read, and on occasion translated, these great European writers and they provided the naturalist style and intellectual inquiry resonant in all her fiction. […] The honesty and authorial detachment that is so remarkable in her work – she is one of the least obtrusive, least judgmental of all the great naturalist writers – seems to come from a distance, almost as though the particularly acute insight of the adult writer could only be seen through the filter of childhood experience.
ref: 2008 August 23, Carmen Callil, “Agony by agony”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2014, page 17, columns 1 and 4:
text: The restaurant feels of-the-moment Los Angeles in its naturalist beauty (plants breathe life into the minimalist space) and its wide-open creativity, though much of Bost’s culinary background is steeped in grand French traditions.
ref: 2019 July 6, Bill Addison, “Has the curse on a storied Melrose restaurant space finally lifted?”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2019:
glosses: Synonym of naturalistic.
synonyms: word: naturalistic
Related terms: biologist
botanist
geologist
natural historian
natural history
natural scientist
scientist
zoologist