cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
antimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimeters
Etymology: From anti- (“opposing counterpart”) + meter (“metrical pattern”).
Senses: examples: text: Blake and Dickinson looked in the same place for an anti-meter (Hollander's term) ; Blake's rough fourteeners employ a one-line adaptation of the meter Dickinson favored, the ballad or hymn stanza.
ref: 2000, Annie Finch, The Ghost of Meter: Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse, page 18:
text: The conflict between meter and antimeter is a critical aspect of the textural rhythm, and takes on significance as a rhetorical code that lends affective immediacy to the psychological drama of the recording.
ref: 2013, Kevin Holm-Hudson, Progressive Rock Reconsidered, page 78:
text: Later, Shemtov speaks of "antimeter”. Here she could speak of “antistanza”, with one difference. Emily Dickinson does not indicate what metre she avoids, whereas Apollinaire clearly indicates what stanza form he does not choose. But, unlike the “antimeter", this has no relevance to a feminist agenda.
ref: 2022, Reuven Tsur, Chen Gafni, Sound–Emotion Interaction in Poetry, page 356:
glosses: A contrasting rhythm or meter that deliberately interrupts or clashes with the naturally expected metrical pattern.
antimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimeter
form: most antimeter
Etymology: From anti- (“against”) + meter (“device for collecting payment”).
Senses: examples: text: Hence, as might have been forseen, the few meters installed have not materially reduced the total wastage, and the antimeter people have been enabled to cry, I told you so!"
ref: 1916 March 24, John C. Trautwine, Jr., “The Anarchism of Councils is Very Largely Responsible for Effects in Present Methods”, in Water and Gas Review, volume 26, number 9, page 10:
text: After being fined one dollar for overtime parking, Howard Henry launched an antimeter campaign which resulted in two referendunms in which voters outlawed them throughout the State.
ref: 1962 June 24, William E. Miles, “Meters by the Mile”, in The Rotarian, volume 100, number 6, page 31:
text: By now the government realised that the anti-meter protesters were more than just the usual suspects like Bríd Smith and Paul Murphy.
ref: 2019, Michael Brennan, In Deep Water:
glosses: Opposed to the use of meters (such as parking meters, water meters, etc.).
antimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antimeter
Golding
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Goldings
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: golding
goldhammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goldhammers
Etymology: From gold + hammer.
Senses: glosses: The yellowhammer.
goldhammers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goldhammer
photophonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photophone + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: photophonic apparatus
text: photophonic receiver
glosses: Of or pertaining to the photophone.
infraposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From infra- + position.
Senses: examples: 1915 (published), 1848 (first written), Elisha Kent Kane, Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack
This floe is now more than two hundred and fifty yards long by four hundred wide; a size too large for infraposition of tables
antonyms: supraposition#Noun
superposition#Noun
superimposition#Noun
glosses: A situation or position beneath.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
antonyms: supraposition#Noun
hypernyms: malposition#Noun
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position#Noun
glosses: A type of malposition of a tooth such that its occlusal surface falls short of the occlusal plane (that is, apical to it); an instance of such malposition.
longlegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longlegs
form: longlegses
Senses: examples: text: No longlegses could make me jump like them queer creatures in a drop on it, […]
ref: 1855 August 11, “Mrs. Grundy on the Alteration of Food”, in Punch, or the London Charivari, volume 29, page 55:
text: Thinking with animals – be it with sheep and dogs or with longlegs, moths, dumbledores, and flies – allows Hardy and his readers to reconsider what it means to be part of “the whole conscious world collectively,” […]
ref: 2017, Anna West, Thomas Hardy and Animals, Cambridge University Press, page 87:
glosses: A daddy longlegs.
orthotone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀρθότονος (orthótonos, “with unmodified accent”). By surface analysis, ortho- + tone.
Senses: examples: text: orthotone coordinators
text: orthotone word
text: orthotone prepositions
topics: grammar
human-sciences
language
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: orthotonic
glosses: Retaining the accent; not enclitic; said of certain indefinite pronouns and adverbs when used interrogatively, which are enclitic in other situations.
Derived terms: orthotonesis
orthotone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthotones
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀρθότονος (orthótonos, “with unmodified accent”). By surface analysis, ortho- + tone.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An orthotone form.
seemless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more seemless
form: most seemless
Etymology: From seem + -less.
Senses: examples: text: That Arthegal himself her seemless Plight did rue
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Unseemly; unfit; indecorous.
glosses: Misspelling of seamless.
dedecoration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin dedecoratio.
Senses: examples: text: Alas! he fears my lacerated coat, And visage pale with frigorisic want, Would bring dedecoration on his chaise.
ref: 1806, Oliver Oldschool, The Port Folio, page 316:
text: In any case it is vulgar, and in its small way, as a dedecoration of Caswall's little treatise, is as sad a case of the confounding of things essentially different as I have seen for a long time.
ref: 1893, The Speaker - Volume 8, page 439:
text: There under the hungry eyes of his mistress, who witnessed all from the Mirador, Pedro, to his dedecoration, put into action the awful declaration, "I am El Rey Justiciero."
ref: 1927, Nancy Cox-McCormack, Pleasant Days in Spain, page 51:
glosses: Disgrace; dishonour.
examples: text: And it is, as I said, with unmingled satisfaction, that I find that no disposition has been evinced among us, to commit any of these irregular reappropriations; or to adopt any of these devices, novel or obsolete, for the decoration or dedecoration of sacred edifices, and those who minister in them.
ref: 1845, William Simcox BRICKNELL, The Judgment of the Bishops Upon Tractarian Theology. A Complete Analytical Arrangement of the Charges Delivered by the Prelates of the Anglican Church, from 1837 to 1842 Inclusive; So Far as They Relate to the Tractarian Movement. With Notes and Appendices, page 625:
text: He was advised that it clearly might; that these mummers had no right to lay their hands on this public ornament, whether for the purpose of decoration or dedecoration
ref: 1856, William Conyngham PLUNKET (1st Baron Plunket.), John Cashel HOEY, Speeches at the Bar and in the Senate ... Edited, with a memoir and historical notices, by J. C. Hoey, page 261
glosses: The removal of decoration.
examples: text: Dedecoration did not produce any advantages in observing the size of the displacement of dislocations.
text: Applying the star-triangle and dedecoration transformations[…]
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Decimation (the elimination of points from a lattice); the inverse of decoration.
mightless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mightless
form: most mightless
Etymology: From Middle English mightles, from Old English mihtlēas, mihtelēas, from Proto-Germanic *mahtilausaz; equivalent to might + -less. Cognate with Scots michtles, Saterland Frisian machtloos, West Frisian machteleas, Dutch machteloos, German Low German machtlos, German machtlos, Swedish maktlös, Icelandic máttlaus.
Senses: examples: text: So the mightless Tannenbaum, with two cups of wine in hand, plus a burger, chased Lilly back down as Ezra scooted into the shadows, leaving her to face the mayor all by herself.
ref: 2004, Dianne Drake, Lilly's Law, page 153:
antonyms: mightful
glosses: Lacking in might or vigour; powerless; weak.
Derived terms: mightlessness
tottle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒt.əl/
ipa: /ˈtɑ.təl/
ipa: [ˈtʰɑɾɫ̩]
homophone: toddle (flapping)
Forms: form: tottles
form: tottling
form: tottled
form: tottled
Etymology: Compare toddle and totter.
Senses: examples: text: I should not, however, so much mind if this folly [of giving children poetic names] were comprised in that domain of cold gentility, to which affectation usually confines itself. One does not regard seeing Miss Arabella seated at the piano, or her little sister Leonora tottling across the carpet to show her new pink shoes. That is in the usual course of events.
ref: 1870, Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery:
glosses: To walk in a wavering, unsteady manner.
tottle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒt.əl/
ipa: /ˈtɑ.təl/
ipa: [ˈtʰɑɾɫ̩]
homophone: toddle (flapping)
Forms: form: tottles
form: tottling
form: tottled
form: tottled
Etymology: From total.
Senses: examples: text: It may be that the days o' fine follow ane anither fast; or that the foul times linger likewise. But in the end, the figures of fine and foul tottle up, in accord wi' their ordered sum.
ref: 1902, Bram Stoker, The Mystery of the Sea, page 38:
glosses: To add up; to sum to a total.
tottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒt.əl/
ipa: /ˈtɑ.təl/
ipa: [ˈtʰɑɾɫ̩]
homophone: toddle (flapping)
Forms: form: tottles
Etymology: Blend of tube + bottle
Senses: glosses: A container, generally of plastic, which is not a simple tube and which is kept with its cap down.
Related terms: tot
tot up
tottled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tottle
tottles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tottle
tottling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tottle
cental
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛntəl/
rhymes: -ɛntəl
Forms: form: centals
Etymology: From Latin centum (“a hundred”) + -al, perhaps modeled after quintal.
Senses: examples: text: Thin native steers, dressing 56 pounds per cwt., $10.50 per cental;
ref: 1873 April, Monthly Report of the Department of Agriculture, page 206:
text: The practice of buying or selling grain by the 100 pounds, or the cental system, is becoming almost universal, and has many advantages over the old practice of selling grain by the bushel.
ref: 1888, C. Frusher Howard, Howard's Anglo-American art of reckoning, page 75:
text: John Hudson & Co. are prepared to undertake the business at a ½d. per cental advance on the price of wheat on 4th July 19000, which is 6s. 5½d. per cental, thus obtaining 6s. 6d. per cental as the contract price.
ref: 1901 July 6, Arthur F. Dodd, “Corn Options and Cotton Futures: Their Object and Effect upon Commercial Transactions”, in The Accountant, page 783:
synonyms: word: hundredweight
glosses: A weight of one hundred avoirdupois pounds.
cental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛntəl/
rhymes: -ɛntəl
Etymology: From Latin centum (“a hundred”) + -al, perhaps modeled after quintal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a hundred.
examples: text: cental coins
text: Cental coin will be exchanged at the rate of two cents of a shilling for one cent of a rupee or florin .
ref: 1930, Tanganyika, “East African Rupee and Florin Currency”, in Official Gazette, page 470:
text: The one shilling pieces and all denominations of notes, Shs. 1/-, 5/-, 10/-, 20/-, 100/-, and 1000/- are legal tender up to any amount, while fifty cent pieces and cental coin are legal tender up to Shs. 20/- and Shs. 1/- respectively.
ref: 1947, Saben's Commercial Directory and Handbook of Uganda, page 302:
text: Harald joined a short queue, handed over a 13- cental coin , and took his pentagonal pink ticket .
ref: 2015, John Meaney, Dark Blood:
glosses: Pertaining to a cent (unit of currency, typically worth 1/100 of the base unit of currency).
dwarfy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdwɔɹ.fi/
ipa: /ˈdwɔː.fi/
Forms: form: more dwarfy
form: most dwarfy
form: dwarvy
Etymology: From dwarf + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] Adam vvas thus abſtracted from humane feculencies, and carryed above the perch and flight of the narrovv and dvvarfie proſpect of mortality; […]
ref: 1663, Edward Waterhous[e], chapter XLII, in Fortescutus Illustratus; or A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Roycroft for Thomas Dicas […], →OCLC, page 487:
glosses: Much undersized; dwarfish.
dedendums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dedendum
clinometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From clino- + -metric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or measured by, a clinometer.
examples: the clinometric systems
glosses: Relating to the oblique crystalline forms, or to solids which have oblique angles between the axes.
supraclavicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ævɪkəl
Forms: form: supraclavicles
Etymology: From supra- + clavicle.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A bone which usually connects the clavicle with the post-temporal in the pectoral girdle of fishes.
supraclavicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supraclavicle
ridgehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ridgeheads
Etymology: From ridge + head.
Senses: glosses: Any of the family Melamphaidae of small, deep-sea stephanoberyciform fish.
Synonyms: bigscale
bigscale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bigscales
Etymology: From big + scale.
Senses: glosses: A fish, the ridgehead.
Related terms: bigscale pomfret
bigscale scorpionfish
ridgeheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ridgehead
bigscales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bigscale
stephanoberyciform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stephanoberyciforms
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the order Stephanoberyciformes
ensate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ensate
form: most ensate
Etymology: From New Latin ensatus, from Latin ensis (“sword”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having sword-shaped leaves or appendages.
Synonyms: ensiform
intertie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interties
Etymology: From inter- + tie.
Senses: topics: architecture
business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: In any framed work, a horizontal tie other than sill and plate or other principal ties, securing uprights to one another.
interties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intertie
entrochal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: entrochal marble or limestone
glosses: Pertaining to, or consisting of, entrochites, or the joints of encrinites.
cholesterolemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cholesterolemia
cholesterolemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cholesterolaemic
Etymology: From cholesterolemia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to cholesterolemia.
Derived terms: anticholesterolemic
cholesterolaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cholesterolemic
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to cholesterolaemia.
Derived terms: hypocholesterolaemic
balanus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balani
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin balanus, from Ancient Greek βάλανος (bálanos, “acorn”).
Senses: examples: text: GLANS, in anatomy, the anterior extremity of the penis, called by other different names, as the head of the penis, the nut of the penis, and the balanus of the penis.
ref: 1763, A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences:
text: There is both a local and a general predisposition to Lues Venerea: Jews and Mahometans, from the constant exposure of the glans and prepuce, have the cuticle of the balanus of much firmer texture than those who have not been circumcised.
ref: 1806, John Howard, Practical observations, page 21:
text: [...] and stretches into the balanus of the penis.
ref: 1998, Vascular Diagnosis with Ultrasound:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: glans
nut
glosses: The glans
Derived terms: subbalanic
balanic
balanitis
balano-
Related terms: balaniferous
nadger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nadgers
Senses: glosses: A non-specific illness or affliction
glosses: The testicles
Penobscots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Penobscot
nadgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nadger
adsignified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adsignify
adsignifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adsignify
adsignify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adsignifies
form: adsignifying
form: adsignified
form: adsignified
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin adsignificare (“to show”). By surface analysis, ad- + signify.
Senses: examples: text: And if it were so , then indeed the word we are now considering , besides the signification of the Verb , must likewise adsignify some Manner and the Present Time
ref: 1786, John Horne Tooke, Epea Pteroenta:
glosses: To denote additionally.
Related terms: adsignification
adsignifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of adsignify
overcarking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overcarking
form: most overcarking
Etymology: From over- + carking.
Senses: examples: text: being solicitously overcarking for the future
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: Too anxious; expressing or taking too much care.
overcarking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From over- + carking.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overcark
nadide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide; NAD⁺
dissentive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dissentive
form: most dissentive
Etymology: From dissent + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: He is a Monster in Nature: for his Heart and Tongue, are Incongruous, and dissentive
ref: 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
glosses: disagreeing; inconsistent
styrolene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: styrolenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: styrene
styrolenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of styrolene
cinnamene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinnamenes
Etymology: From cinnamic + -ene, because derived from cinnamic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: styrene
cinnamenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinnamene
gastrohysterotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gastro- + hystero- + -tomy.
Senses: glosses: Caesarean section
nadroparin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -parin (“heparin derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A relatively low-molecular weight fraction of heparin that is used as an antithrombotic agent in the treatment of deep vein thrombosis
Synonyms: fraxiparine
enclavement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enclavements
Etymology: French
Senses: glosses: An enclave.
glosses: The state of being an enclave, or the act of making an enclave.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Retention due to a constriction; impaction, as of the head in the pelvic strait.
Related terms: enclavation
enclavements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enclavement
callisection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛkʃən
Forms: form: callisections
Etymology: From Latin callere (“to be insensible”) + English section.
Senses: examples: text: The two kinds of vivisection, sentisection and callisection
ref: 1883, Burt Green Wilder, On the Brain of a Cat Lacking the Callosum, Preliminary Notics:
glosses: painless vivisection
Related terms: sentisection
callisections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of callisection
Orcus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɔːrkəs/
Etymology: From Latin Orcus. Doublet of ogre and orc.
Senses: examples: text: Then ſhall our footmen lie within the trench,
And with their Cannons mouth’d like Orcus gulfe
Batter the wales, and we will enter in:
And thus the Grecians ſhalbe conquered.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene i:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
coordinate_terms: Hades
Pluto
glosses: The Etruscan and Roman god of the underworld.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
hypernyms: plutino
glosses: A plutino and planetoid, possibly a dwarf planet; sometimes referred to as the “anti-Pluto”.
Synonyms: sense: celestial body
word: 🝿
curledness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From curled + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being curled.
naegleria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naeglerias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of several amoebas, of the genus Naegleria, that are pathogenic to humans and other animals.
soothings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soothing
disadvise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disadvises
form: disadvising
form: disadvised
form: disadvised
Etymology: From dis- + advise.
Senses: examples: text: I had a clear reason to disadvise the purchase of it.
ref: a. 1691, Robert Boyle, Works, Volume V, page 464
text: In this case, therefore, I conceive the plaintiff must be nonsuited and I should disadvise the bringing any such action.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling, Digitized edition, volume 1, published 2008, page 123:
text: Dietary recommendations for patients with CF generally disadvise an excessive intake of complex carbohydrates
ref: 2009, ARJ Schneider, S Klueber, HG Posselt, B Funk, Lydia Murzynski, Wolfgang F. Caspary, Juergen Stein, “Application of the Glucose Hydrogen Breath Test for the Detection of Bacterial Overgrowth in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis––A Reliable Method?”, in Digestive diseases and Sciences, Springer:
glosses: To advise against.
examples: text: I am sure he disadvised you from it
ref: 1855, Anthony Trollope, The Chronicles of Barsetshire: The Warden:
text: The Convention sanctioned the exercise in Bechuanaland of that Imperial influence and protection which Sir Hercules had opposed at Pretoria and disadvised Her Majesty's Government against, as quoted above.
ref: 1888, Parliamentary Papers, volume 74, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, page 9:
text: At the time I used to wonder whether he knew his subject or whether he did not wish to part with his knowledge. From his subsequent career I have come to the conclusion that the former was the case. He disadvised me from studying books
ref: 1928, The Tea & Coffee Trade Journal: Representing the Tea, Coffee, Spice, and Fine Grocery Trades, volume 55:
glosses: To dissuade.
Synonyms: sense: advise against
word: counteradvise
sense: advise against
word: dissuade
disadvised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disadvise
disadvises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disadvise
disadvising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disadvise
dulcamarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dulcamara + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow glucoside extracted from the bittersweet (Solanum dulcamara).
bioblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioblasts
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of bioplast.
bioblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioblast
areolet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: areolets
Etymology: Diminutive of Latin areola. See -et, -let.
Senses: examples: text: closed areolet
text: discal areolet
text: triangular areolet
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A small space on the wings of insects, circumscribed by the radii.
areolets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of areolet
praseo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek πράσιος (prásios, “leek-green, green”), from Ancient Greek πράσον (práson, “leek”).
Senses: glosses: green
praseocobalt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From praseo- + cobalt.
Senses: glosses: A green variety of cobalt.
naphthacenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naphthacene
purpureocobalt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From purpureo- + cobalt.
Senses: glosses: A violet-red variety of cobalt.
luteocobalt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From luteo- + cobalt.
Senses: glosses: A yellow variety of cobalt.
stammels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stammel
puriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin pus, puris (“pus”) + -form. Compare French puriforme.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: purulent, pussy
text: puriform discharge from the ear
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: In the form of pus.
primariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From primary + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: there is difference as to the Necessity of the Determination, as well as to the Primariness of it
ref: 1693, John Norris, Reason and Religion:
glosses: The quality or state of being primary, or first in time, act, or intention.
Croesi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Croesus
naphthaleneacetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From naphthalene + acetic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to naphthaleneacetic acid or its derivatives
superanions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superanion
naphthaleneacetic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naphthaleneacetic acids
Etymology: From naphthalene + acetic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of two isomeric carboxylic acids in which a carboxymethyl group is attached to a naphthalene residue; the 1- isomer is an auxin
naphthalenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naphthalenols
Senses: glosses: naphthol
naphthalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naphthalins
Senses: glosses: naphthalene
naphthaline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naphthalines
Senses: glosses: naphthalene
push someone's buttons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pushes someone's buttons
form: pushing someone's buttons
form: pushed someone's buttons
form: pushed someone's buttons
form: press someone's buttons
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: trigger, get on someone's nerves
text: You really knew how to push my buttons.
text: I end up cleaning up after her, which I’ve repeatedly told her makes me upset. She’s a smart, talented kid. So why does she keep pushing my buttons?
ref: 2019 April 10, Cheryl Maguire, “How to Stop Thinking Your Teen Is ‘Pushing Your Buttons’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To do specific things to anger someone (or, less commonly, to sexually arouse or otherwise elicit a strong reaction from them), especially intentionally or maliciously.
Related terms: button pusher
push the right buttons
pet peeve
naphthoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naphthoates
Etymology: From naphthoic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of naphthoic acid.
disendow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disendows
form: disendowing
form: disendowed
form: disendowed
Etymology: From dis- + endow.
Senses: examples: text: by law established, you cannot disestablish and disendow the Irish Branch without also disestablishing and disendowing the United Church
ref: 1868, a London rector, letter to William Ewart Gladstone:
glosses: To deprive of an endowment.
Derived terms: disendower
disendowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disendow
disendowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disendow
disendows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disendow
cliencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cliency
cliency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cliencies
Etymology: From client + -cy?
Senses: glosses: clientship; the state of being a client.
naphthoates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naphthoate
metastannic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + stannic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound of tin obtained as an isomeric modification of stannic acid.
Derived terms: metastannate
recompenser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recompensers
Etymology: From recompense + -er.
Senses: examples: text: a thankful recompenser of the benefits received
ref: 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:
glosses: someone who recompenses; a rewarder.
recompensers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recompenser
shufflewing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shufflewings
Etymology: From shuffle + wing?
Senses: glosses: The dunnock.
shufflewings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shufflewing
parallelopipedon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parallelopipedons
Etymology: From New Latin parallelopipedon, alteration of Ancient Greek παραλληλεπίπεδος (parallēlepípedos, “with parallel surfaces”), from παράλληλος (parállēlos, “parallel”) + ἐπίπεδος (epípedos, “plane”).
Senses: examples: text: In the next place compare the rhombus with the parallelopipedon. It is evident the former is precisely half the area of the latter
ref: 1806, Thomas Thomson, Annals of Philosophy:
glosses: A parallelopiped.
parallelopipedons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parallelopipedon
giantry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From giant + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: Some younger Brother of the Giantry
ref: 1638, Fasciculus Florum:
glosses: The race of giants.
parallelopiped
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parallelopipeds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of parallelepiped.
parallelopipeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parallelopiped
roband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robands
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A ropeband.
robands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roband
insolations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insolation
naphthylamidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naphthylamidases
Etymology: From naphthylamide + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a naphthylamide, especially one of an amino acid
naphthylamidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naphthylamidase
tubuliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tubuliform
form: most tubuliform
Etymology: From tubule + -iform. Compare French tubuliforme.
Senses: examples: text: tubuliform gland
text: tubuliform silk gland
glosses: Having the form of a small tube, or tubule.
-gerous
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Latin gerō (“I carry”) + English -ous.
Senses: glosses: Bearing or producing.
naphthylamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naphthylamides
Etymology: From naphthyl + amide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any amide in which the amino group is naphthylamine
Derived terms: naphthylamidase
naphthylthiourea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From naphthyl + thiourea.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: the N-naphthyl derivative of thiourea; it is used as a rodenticide
Derived terms: alpha-naphthylthiourea
α-naphthylthiourea
metasilicic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + silicic + acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid derived from silicic acid by the removal of water.
naphthylamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naphthylamide
arrowheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From arrow + headed.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like the head of an arrow; cuneiform; cuneatic.
glosses: Having an arrowhead
naphthylvinylpyridine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naphthylvinylpyridines
Etymology: From naphthyl + vinyl + pyridine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric naphthylvinyl derivatives of pyridine, but especially 4-[(E)-2-naphthalen-1-ylethenyl]pyridine which has anticholinergic activity similar to that of atropine
napsylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: napsylates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: naphthalenesulfonate
Lyrids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lyrid
napu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: napus
Etymology: From Malay napuh
Senses: glosses: A greater mouse-deer (Tragulus napu).
trochosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trochospheres
Etymology: From trocho- + sphere.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: trochophore
trochospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trochosphere
balneographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balneography
balneography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: balneographies
Etymology: From Latin balneum (“bath”) + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: A description or study of therapeutic baths.
Ramist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ramists
Senses: glosses: A follower of Ramism.
Ramists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ramist
scathfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scathful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being scathful; harm.
semipenniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + penniform.
Senses: examples: text: the extensor digitorum longus is a semipenniform muscle
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Half or partially penniform.
ovaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ovarium
ovarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ə(ʊ)ˈvɛːrɪəm/
Forms: form: ovaria
Etymology: From New Latin. Doublet of ovary.
Senses: examples: text: […] racemes axillary, suprafoliaceous; ovarium glabrous.
ref: 1834, George Don, A General System of Gardening and Botany, page 837:
glosses: An ovary.
Derived terms: ovarium masculinum
parovarium
pseudovarium
metrification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metrifications
Senses: examples: text: Should I flounder awhile without a tumble / Thro' this metrification of Catullus, […]
ref: 1864, Alfred Tennyson, “[Experiments.] In Quantity. Milton. Hendecasyllabics.”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 175:
glosses: A composition in metrical form; a versification.
glosses: Metrication.
Related terms: metrify
metrifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metrification
you lot
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: You lot had better knock it off.
text: I’m not s’posed ter talk abou’ it, not even ter you lot.
ref: 2000 July 8, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], “The Beginning”, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter; 4), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 624:
qualifier: may have disparaging nuance
glosses: You (plural).
Synonyms: y'all
mirabilaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mirabilary
mirabilary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mirabilaries
Senses: examples: text: The use of this work, honoured with a precedent in Aristotle, is nothing less than to give contentment to the appetite of curious and vain wits, as the manner of mirabilaries is to do […]
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, Book II:
glosses: Someone or something that narrates wonderful things; one who writes of wonders.
phonologer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonologers
Etymology: From phonology + -er.
Senses: glosses: A phonologist.
phonologers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phonologer
heteromorphous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heteromorphous
form: most heteromorphous
Senses: examples: text: heteromorphous muscle
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: heteromorphic
cremationist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cremation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: In favour of cremation
cremationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cremationists
Etymology: From cremation + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: And besides, whatʼs to become of all the grave-diggers? Have the cremationists thought of that?
ref: 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 430:
glosses: Someone in favour of the practice of cremation.
glosses: Someone who performs a cremation; a cremator
cremationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cremationist
pedestrious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pəˈdɛstɹiəs/
Senses: examples: text: pedestrious animals
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Going on foot i.e. not flying or swimming.
Related terms: pedestrian
capping plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capping planes
Senses: glosses: A plane (the tool, not the vehicle) used for working the upper surface of staircase rails. They are relatively rounded
capping planes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capping plane
dropworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dropworms
Etymology: From drop + worm.
Senses: glosses: The larva of any geometrid moth, which drops from trees by means of a thread of silk, such as the cankerworm.
dropworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dropworm
placoganoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Relating to the Placoganoidei, apparently a synonym of Placodermi.
Related terms: stomatopod
tentaculocyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tentaculocysts
Etymology: tentaculum + cyst
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: auditory tentacle
rhopalium
glosses: One of the sensory organss of certain jellyfish.
tentaculocysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tentaculocyst
cantlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cantlets
Etymology: Diminutive of cantle with -et or -let.
Senses: examples: text: Nor shield nor armour can their force oppose; Huge cantlets of his buckler strew the groun
ref: 1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: Thanks to his clasp-knife, he was able to appropriate a wing of fowl and a slice of ham; a cantlet of cold custard-pudding he thought would harmonize with these articles; […]
ref: 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Martin’s Tactics”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 219:
glosses: A piece; a fragment; a corner.
cantlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cantlet
compartition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compartitions
Etymology: Latin compartitio.
Senses: glosses: The act of dividing into parts or compartments.
examples: text: Their temples […] needed no compartitions.
ref: 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC:
glosses: A division or compartment.
compartitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compartition
your guys's
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˈ)jɝ(ˈ)ɡaɪzəz/
ipa: /(ˈ)jɔɹ-/
note: ʹ
enpr: yər(ʹ)gīzəz
enpr: yôr(ʹ)-
ipa: /(ˈ)joː(ˈ)ɡɑɪzəz/
Senses: examples: text: 2000, Linkin Park Web Interview http://www.pushmeaway.com/linkinwebint.html
I know that in your guys's official bio from Warner that it says you would tour with anyone because your music touches so many genres.
text: “I don’t believe that a seven-year term of office for our president should be of any particular concern to you, Mr. Kelly.”
“Well, it is, but that is your guys’s problem.[”]
ref: 2002, Sandy Shanks, Impeachment http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0595259863&id=klWdsVSTHrwC&pg=RA1-PA177&lpg=RA1-PA177&ots=MWwDklCftH&dq=%22your+guys%27s%22&sig=o3EoiikJpq6fnnRvxwXwnOKQ3c0
text: 2005, Megan, Age 14, in Weight Loss Success Stories http://www.blubberbuster.com/board/success_37.html
I still have about 30 lbs to lose, which I would love to lose in 3 months..and after reading all your guys's stories I have gained even more motivation.
text: 2006, Tony Kapel, A Letter to the Parents of http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1411685172&id=_ThYMEfjATgC&pg=PA263&lpg=PA263&vq=your+guys%27s&dq=%22your+guys%27s%22&sig=IJ9Q8OivUhTnAasdJNFyGTc9Www
“Man your guys’s room is bigger then mine — man you got a balcony — I don’t have a balcony.”
glosses: Alternative form of your guys'.
Synonyms: your
you guys's
you guys'
y'all's
your guys's
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˈ)jɝ(ˈ)ɡaɪzəz/
ipa: /(ˈ)jɔɹ-/
note: ʹ
enpr: yər(ʹ)gīzəz
enpr: yôr(ʹ)-
ipa: /(ˈ)joː(ˈ)ɡɑɪzəz/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of your guys'.
Synonyms: yours
you guys's
you guys'
y'all's
Related terms: you guys
conico-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: See conic.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat resembling a cone.
embolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin embolus (“piston”), from Ancient Greek ἔμβολος (émbolos, “peg, wedge, stopper”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral consisting of silver chloride and silver bromide; a variety of bromian chlorargyrite.
mensurational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mensuration + -al.
Senses: examples: text: "James Fenimore Cooper draws a broad contrast between, on the one hand, mensurational principles associated with the "natural world" and, on the other hand, those associated with the artificial affairs of human endeavor.
ref: 1987, Noel T Byrne, The Temporal Organization of Behavior in Public Places; a study in the sociology of timing practices, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, page 170:
glosses: concerned with measuring
Derived terms: mensurationally
Related terms: word: mensis
chicken-breasted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chicken-breasted
form: most chicken-breasted
Senses: examples: text: A child which was very chicken-breasted at three years of age, is often perfectly well-formed at 13. On the other hand, some without any disorder of the respiratory organs will remain chicken-breasted for life
ref: 1851, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Having a narrow chest that projects outwards, often caused by forward curvature of the spine.
Related terms: pigeon-breasted
genderneutral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more genderneutral
form: most genderneutral
Senses: examples: text: The teacher (Mrs. Spiegel) had selected all the words, and claimed they were all genderneutral.
ref: 1992 July 4, Philip Lippel, re This is probably going to get me flamed..., soc.singles
text: In this latter perspective the idea of an ontologically founded duality of the sexes overrules the vision of a genderneutral, universal humanity beyond sex and its differences.
ref: 2000, edited by Alison M. Jaggar and Iris Marion Young, A companion to feminist philosophy, page 347:
text: Is madness gendered or genderneutral as to frequency?
In lay circles, according to the authors' descriptions, the madness-label is a genderneutral term of abuse.
ref: 2003, Marc Boone, Marysa Demoor, Charles V in context: the making of a European identity, page 213 & 232:
text: a world populated by a hermaphroditic species that is genderneutral save for the kemmer — two days during the planet's lunar cycle when Gethenians can decide to take on either the male or female role in mating.
ref: 2011, Rob Kirkpatrick, 1969: The Year Everything Changed:
glosses: Alternative spelling of gender-neutral
genderfree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more genderfree
form: most genderfree
Senses: examples: text: Ruddick constructs mothering as a genderfree practice under the PCT to distinguish from earlier accounts of mothering.
ref: 1993, Dissertation abstracts international: The humanities and social sciences, produced by University Microfilms International, page 2173
text: So "sons of God" become "children of God" and "mankind" becomes "humankind"; an endless series of "he" and "him" and "his" and "himself" items is dealt with by making the verbs plural wherever possible, so that the genderfree "they" and "them" and "their" and "themselves" can be used instead.
ref: 2000, Suzette Haden Elgin, The language imperative, page 60:
text: More concretely, in his genderfree society — reminiscent of Lake Wobegon — women as well as men would be independent, decisive, and strong, and men as well as women would be cooperative, open, and nurturing (if not good-looking).
ref: 2001, edited by James P. Sterba, Social and political philosophy: contemporary perspectives, page 153:
glosses: Alternative spelling of gender-free
cogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coggers
Etymology: From cog (“to play tricks with dice”) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: This Edward […] staked his honour against a cogger of dice, and was presently tricked out of three thousand guineas […].
ref: 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, vol. IV, letter 71:
glosses: Someone who cheats at dice.
glosses: A flatterer or deceiver.
coggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cogger
eild
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See eld.
Senses: examples: text: Book III, xxxv:
His age was full of puissance and might, / Two sons he had to guard his noble eild.
Book IV, xliv:
ref: 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso
roman: Mine uncle govern'd in my tender eild.
glosses: Age.