cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sufflaminate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sufflaminates
form: sufflaminating
form: sufflaminated
form: sufflaminated
Etymology: From Latin sufflāminō (“clog, block”).
Senses: examples: text: An Ideal Husband is a very able and entertaining piece of work, charmingly written, wherever Mr. Wilde can find it in his heart to sufflaminate his wit.
ref: 1896: William Archer, The Theatrical ‘World’ of 1893–[97], page 18 (W. Scott, ltd.)
glosses: To obstruct.
sufflate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sufflates
form: sufflating
form: sufflated
form: sufflated
Etymology: From Latin sufflare, from sub- + flare (“to blow”).
Senses: glosses: To inflate; to blow up.
sufflation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sufflations
Senses: glosses: Inflation.
sufflue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sufflues
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A clarion-like charge on a coat of arms.
suffumigate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: suffumigates
form: suffumigating
form: suffumigated
form: suffumigated
Etymology: From Latin suffumigatus, past participle of suffumigare (“to fumigate from below”). See sub-, and fumigate.
Senses: glosses: To fumigate from below.
glosses: To apply fumes or smoke to the parts of, as to the body in medicine; to fumigate in part.
Derived terms: suffumigation
sugarberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugarberries
Etymology: From sugar + berry.
Senses: glosses: hackberry
sugar apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugar apples
form: sugar-apple
Senses: glosses: Sweetsop, Annona squamosa, a West Indian tree or its fruit.
West Indian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: West + Indian, after West India.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the West Indies.
Derived terms: West Indian elm
West Indian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: West Indians
Etymology: West + Indian, after West India.
Senses: glosses: a person from the West Indies
sugar bush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugar bushes
Etymology: From sugar + bush.
Senses: glosses: An evergreen shrub found in the southwestern United States of America, Rhus ovata.
examples: text: The lake abounds with the choicest species of fish, and in the vicinity are found sugar bushes and rice fields.
ref: 1851, Executive Documents, v 1, n 1, Washington DC: United States Senate, p 93
related: word: sugarbush
glosses: A wooded area with sugar maples or other trees tapped for sugaring.
Related terms: sugarhouse
sugar shack
maple syrup
sugar candy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugar candies
Etymology: From Middle English suger candy, sugre candy, equivalent to sugar + candy.
Senses: glosses: candy, confectionery
glosses: crystals of sucrose
sugar glider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugar gliders
Senses: examples: text: As with other exotic pets, sound husbandry is essential for captive sugar gliders to flourish.
ref: 2003, Chris Pinney, The Complete Home Veterinary Guide, page 510:
text: As in the eastern pygmy possum (van Tets and Hulbert 1999), this is reflected in a very low nitrogen requirement in sugar gliders (Smith and Green 1987), and probably all sap feeders.
ref: 2005, C. Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe, Life of Marsupials, page 209:
text: The animals on the cover of Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS are sugar gliders (Petaurus breviceps). Sugar gliders are small, gray-furred creatures that grow to an adult length of six to seven-and-a-half inches.[…]This ensures that of the group will know when an outsider approaches; group members will fight off any sugar glider not bearing their scent.
ref: 2012, Robin Nixon, Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS, 2nd edition, O'Reilly, page 557:
glosses: Petaurus breviceps, an omnivorous gliding arboreal marsupial, endemic to mainland Australia and New Guinea, and introduced to Tasmania in 1835.
sugar of milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Lactose, a disaccharide found in milk.
sugar pea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugar peas
Senses: synonyms: snow pea
mangetout
glosses: A vegetable pea eaten when immature, mangetout.
radiosport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + sport.
Senses: synonyms: bunny hunt
foxhunt
glosses: A sport combining radio direction finding and orienteering; transmitter hunt.
sloppier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of sloppy: more sloppy
sloppiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of sloppy: most sloppy
mangetout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɑ̃ʒ.tuː/
/mɑ̃ʒˈtuː/
Forms: form: mangetouts
form: mange-tout
Etymology: Borrowed from French mangetout, from mange (“eat”) + tout (“all”), since even the pod is edible.
Senses: synonyms: sugar pea
snow pea
glosses: A vegetable pea (Pisum sativum) eaten when immature.
corrodes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of corrode
pyrographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrographers
Senses: glosses: An artist who practises pyrography
Synonyms: pyrographist
frangipani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfrændʒɪˈpɑːni/
ipa: /ˌfrændʒɪˈpæni/
rhymes: -ɑːni
rhymes: -æni
Forms: form: frangipanis
form: frangipani
form: frangipane
Etymology: From French frangipane, from Italian frangipane. Possibly named after Muzio Frangipane, a 16th-century marquess of the Italian noble Frangipani family, who invented a plumeria-scented perfume. The name Frangipane derives from frangere (“to break”) + pane (“bread”), a reference to the family's distribution of bread in time of famine.
Senses: synonyms: plumeria
glosses: Any of several tropical American shrubs and trees of the genus Plumeria, having fragrant, showy, funnel-shaped flowers of a wide range of colours from creamy to red.
examples: text: The aroma given off by flowers has an aphrodisiac effect, especially on women. This is so particularly in the case of lilies of the valley, gardenia, frangipani, and henna.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 98:
text: I casually let this information drop as our concierge drives us through the resort in a buggy, a frangipani flower tucked behind his ear. He promises to fix the bug problem and drops us off at the lobby.
ref: 2022 November 26, Virginia Feito, “Sweating Through a Honeymoon in Paradise”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A flower of these plants.
glosses: A perfume obtained from this plant or imitating the odour of its flowers.
examples: text: Lahlou baked a cardamom frangipani and cut it into pieces as a base for roasted chicken. (Well, I used chicken; he used squab. Use whatever bird you fancy.) Then he topped the frangipani and poultry with kale and leaf-thin sugar-and-cardamom-sprinkled phyllo rectangles — made by baking them between baking sheets — like a savory mille-feuille.
ref: 2010 November 24, Amanda Hesser, “Recipe Redux: Fyrstekake (Royal Cake), 1963”, in The New York Times Magazine:
glosses: Alternative form of frangipane (“cream made from ground almonds; pastry filled with this cream”).
Derived terms: taxonomic: Hymenosporum flavum
word: native frangipani
Related terms: frangipane
RPN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of reverse Polish notation.
RPN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Initialism of Radio Philippines Network.
animato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: animatos
Etymology: From Italian animato.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A passage to be played in a lively, animated manner.
animato
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Italian animato.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: (To be played) in a lively, animated manner.
anecdotal evidence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Tens of thousands of Portuguese, Greek and Irish people have left their homelands this year, many heading for the southern hemisphere. Anecdotal evidence points to the same happening in Spain and Italy.
ref: 2011 December 21, Helen Pidd, “Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis”, in the Guardian:
glosses: A limited selection of examples which support or refute an argument, but which are not supported by scientific or statistical analysis.
tricoteuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tricoteuses
Etymology: From French tricoteuse.
Senses: examples: text: Sitting in the courtroom […], their laptops and tablets propped before them, power cables snaking through convoluted adapters, the Twitterati have sight of witnesses at all times — the troubadours, or perhaps the tricoteuses, of the digital revolution.
ref: 2014 April 24, Alan Cowell, “At Pistorius trial, Twitterati have their day in court”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A woman who knits; used especially of those who knitted at meetings and at executions during the French Revolution.
subpar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səbˈpɑː/
ipa: /səbˈpɑɹ/
ipa: [səbˈpʰɑɹ]
ipa: [səbˈpʰɑ˞]
ipa: /səbˈpɑɹ/
Etymology: From sub- + par.
Senses: examples: text: Bob's grasp of English was subpar.
synonyms: below par
under par
coordinate_terms: up to par
above par
glosses: Of less than a traditional or accepted standard.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Synonym of below par.
synonyms: word: below par
topics: business
finance
glosses: Trading at a price below face value.
Related terms: cut the mustard
marriageability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From marriage + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: At fifty-eight with no children of her own [...] she wondered about the hysteria, the violence, the damnation of pregnancy without marriageability.
ref: 1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, Vintage (2016), page 76:
text: Three years might make a big difference to a woman's marriageability.
ref: 2012, John Mullan, What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved, page 15:
glosses: The condition of being marriageable.
Synonyms: nubility
marriageableness
unstated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + stated.
Senses: examples: text: Communication may be difficult between a low context culture and a high context culture when the unstated meanings of body language differ between the parties.
ref: 2008, Chris Bates, Ling-Li Bates, Culture Shock! Taiwan, →ISBN, page vi:
glosses: Not explicitly stated; unspoken.
unlivable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unlivable
form: most unlivable
form: unliveable
Etymology: From un- + livable.
Senses: examples: an unlivable life
glosses: That cannot be lived.
examples: an unlivable planet
glosses: Unfit to be lived in; uninhabitable.
Related terms: unlivably
inhabitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈhæbɪtəbəl/
ipa: /ɪnˈhæbɪtəbəl/
Forms: form: more inhabitable
form: most inhabitable
Etymology: From inhabit + -able.
Senses: examples: text: It is more ſuitable to the wiſdom, power and greatneſs of God, to think that the fixt Stars are all of them Suns, with Syſtems of inhabitable Planets moving about them, to whoſe Inhabitants he diſplays the marks of his Goodneſs as well as to us[…]
ref: a. 1704, John Locke, “Elements of Natural Philosophy”, in A Collection of Several Pieces of Mr. John Locke, London: J. Bettenham for R. Francklin, published 1710, pages 190–191:
glosses: Fit to live in; habitable.
Derived terms: noninhabitable
inhabitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈhæbɪtəbəl/
ipa: /ɪnˈhæbɪtəbəl/
Forms: form: more inhabitable
form: most inhabitable
Etymology: From Middle English inhabitable, inhabytabill, from Middle French inhabitable and its etymon Latin inhabitābilis (“uninhabitable”). By surface analysis, in- + habitable.
Senses: examples: text: […] Which to maintaine, I would allow him ods, / And meete him were I tied to runne afoote, / Euen to the frozen ridges of the Alpes, / Or any other ground inhabitable, / Where euer Engliſhman durſt ſet his foote, […]
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedie of King Richard the Second. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Simmes for Androw Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], signature A3, recto:
glosses: Not habitable; not suitable to be inhabited.
tempestive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tempestive
form: most tempestive
Etymology: From Latin tempestivus.
Senses: examples: text: Neither obscured from the comfortable beams of the sun, nor covered from the cheerful and tempestive showers of heaven.
ref: 1635, Thomas Heywood, The Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels:
glosses: seasonable; timely
Synonyms: opportune
timesome
timely
Derived terms: tempestively
glasse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glasses
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of glass.
Annabelle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænəbɛl/
Forms: form: Annabelles
Etymology: A variant of Annabel, by folk etymology, "beautiful Anna".
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin.
portamento
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔːtəˈmɛntəʊ/
Forms: form: portamentos
form: portamenti
Etymology: From Italian portamento, from portare (“bear, carry”).
Senses: examples: text: The music was feral, Eastern in scale, flattened seconds and sixths, and a kind of fretless portamento between
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 945:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A smooth, gliding transition from one note to another; used especially with stringed instruments, and sometimes on brass.
Derived terms: portamentoed
Aaliyah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aaliyahs
form: Aliyah
Etymology: Popularized by American singer Aaliyah Haughton (1979-2001). Transliteration of Arabic عَالِيَة (ʕāliya).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Arabic.
Aliyah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Ultimately from Arabic عَالِيَة (ʕāliya).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Arabic of modern American usage, a variant of Aaliyah.
Aliyah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aliyahs
Etymology: Ultimately from Hebrew עלייה \ עֲלִיָּה (aliyá, “ascent”)
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of aliyah.
Aliyah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Ultimately from Hebrew עלייה \ עֲלִיָּה (aliyá, “ascent”)
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
Kaitlin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Irish, one of the modern spelling variants of Caitlin.
Katelynn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Irish, one of the modern spelling variants of Caitlin.
Cecily
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: "We two," she said, "will seek the groves
Where the lady Mary is,
With her five handmaidens, whose names
Are five sweet symphonies,
Cecily, Gertrude, Magdalen,
Margaret and Rosalys.
ref: 1850, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel:
glosses: A female given name from Latin, from the medieval vernacular form of Cecilia.
Cicely
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: , Induction, Scene II
First Servant. - - - Sometimes you would call out for Cicely Hacket.
Sly. Ay, the woman's maid of the house.
glosses: A female given name from Latin, a variant of Cecily and Cecilia used since the Middle Ages.
Candace
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkæn.dɪs/
Forms: form: Candaces
form: Candice
Etymology: From Latin Candacē, from Ancient Greek Κανδάκη (Kandákē), from Meroitic 𐦲𐦷𐦲𐦡 (kdke /⁠kandakə⁠/), a hereditary title of ancient queens of Napata (Northern Sudan).
The name is also associated with Late Latin candida (“whiteness”) via folk etymology. The silent e at the end might be a result of this association.
Senses: examples: text: He aroſe and went on / and beholde a man off ethiopia which was gelded / and of grete auctoꝛite with Candace qune of the ethiopians / which had the rule off all her treaſure / cam to Ieruſalem foꝛ to pꝛaye.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts viij:[27–28], folio clxv, verso:
text: Candace Rivers’ involvement with trucking began, fittingly, on Interstate 20 not far from her hometown of Oxford, Alabama.
ref: 2021 April 10, AJ Willingham, “Female truckers have become TikTok influencers, and they’re changing the transportation game”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Candace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkæn.dɪs/
Forms: form: Candaces
form: Candice
Etymology: From Latin Candacē, from Ancient Greek Κανδάκη (Kandákē), from Meroitic 𐦲𐦷𐦲𐦡 (kdke /⁠kandakə⁠/), a hereditary title of ancient queens of Napata (Northern Sudan).
The name is also associated with Late Latin candida (“whiteness”) via folk etymology. The silent e at the end might be a result of this association.
Senses: examples: text: Regardless of this treaty, Nubian attacks on Lower Nubia continued and—as was mentioned before—Strabo recorded the attack of a Candace of Kush on Elephantine and Philae, in which the Nubians looted the towns […]
ref: 2012, Hassan B. Abdelwahab, Influence (Supremacy) of Religion on Sudan's Foreign Policy, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of candace (a Nubian queen).
Candice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Candices
Etymology: A variant of Candace associated with Late Latin candida (“whiteness”) via folk etymology.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Candace.
Karla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Carla
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages, masculine equivalent Karl.
Cara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kara
Etymology: 20th-century English coinage from Italian cara (“dear”) or Irish cara (“friend”).
Senses: examples: text: 'Okay, Cara Burrows. Can I take a look in your bag?'
'My bag? Why?' This is getting a bit ridiculous. And he pronounced my name wrong: Carrah. Didn't even try to say it the way he heard me say it.
ref: 2017, Sophie Hannah, Did You See Melody?: The stunning page turner from the bestselling author of Haven't They Grown?, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Cheri
blue lotus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue lotuses
Senses: glosses: A lily-like aquatic flower growing in Asia and North Africa, Nymphaea caerulea, revered by the Ancient Egyptians.
glosses: Nymphaea nouchali, an aquatic flower native to the Indian subcontinent.
glosses: A perennial aquatic flower native to tropical Asia and Queensland, Australia, Nelumbo nucifera, having attractive flowers and sometimes used in food.
Synonyms: sense: Nymphaea caerulea
word: blue Egyptian water lily
sense: Nymphaea nouchali
word: red and blue water lily
sense: Nymphaea nouchali
word: blue star water lily
sense: Nymphaea nouchali
word: star lotus
sense: Nelumbo nucifera
word: Indian lotus
sense: Nelumbo nucifera
word: sacred lotus
sense: Nelumbo nucifera
word: bean of India
sense: Nelumbo nucifera
word: lotus
Chantal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Chantal in the 1960s, from the surname of a French saint Jeanne de Chantal, actually a Baroness of Chantal, a place name in France from Old Occitan cantal (“stone, moellon, rubblestone”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French.
Related terms: Chantelle
LSA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LSAs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of lysergic acid amide.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: RPP
glosses: Initialism of light sport aircraft.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of logistics support aircraft.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: LSI
glosses: Initialism of latent semantic analysis.
glosses: Abbreviation of logistics support analysis.
glosses: Abbreviation of logistics support analyst.
glosses: Initialism of licentiate of the Apothecaries' Society
Chantelle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: An English variant of Chantal.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French.
lysergic acid amide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lysergic acid amides
Senses: glosses: A hallucinogenic alkaloid present in certain vines and fungi; ergine.
ergine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Lysergic acid amide.
Jasmin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A variant of Jasmine.
Senses: examples: text: He replied, what I mean is not the jasmine that people smell; but a slave girl whose name is Jasmin, whom my father would not buy for me.
ref: 1847, Edward William Lane, The Thousand and One Nights (translation from Arabic): Aladdin Abushamat:
glosses: A female given name from Persian.
Jazmin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Persian, variant of Jasmine.
Jazmine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Persian, variant of Jasmine.
Kiana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian Kiana, itself from English Diana. Also used as a modern feminine form of Kian.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hawaiian, of 1970s and later American usage.
diaphoretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /daɪəfəˈɹɛtɪk/
Forms: form: more diaphoretic
form: most diaphoretic
Etymology: From Latin diaphorēticus, from Ancient Greek διαφορητικός (diaphorētikós); by surface analysis, diaphor(esis) + -etic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: sudorific
glosses: Generating sweat or perspiration.
diaphoretic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /daɪəfəˈɹɛtɪk/
Forms: form: diaphoretics
Etymology: From Latin diaphorēticus, from Ancient Greek διαφορητικός (diaphorētikós); by surface analysis, diaphor(esis) + -etic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A product or agent which induces or promotes perspiration.
Related terms: diaphoresis
adiaphoretic
Tiana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɑːnə
Etymology: Modern contraction of Tatiana and Christiana. In the USA it is also explained as a form of Diana in such unrelated languages as Samoan and Cherokee (but the author Tiana Bighorse is a Navajo).
Senses: examples: text: By Cherokee custom he married Tiana Rogers Gentry; within the tribe it was a real marriage, not a casual liaison. To Houston and to other whites his wife was known as Diana.
ref: 1962, Marion Karl Wisehart, Sam Houston, American Giant, R. B. Luce, page 60:
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
Gaynor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gainor
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Welsh, a variant of Welsh Gaenor or Guinevere, popular in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Nodaway County, Missouri, United States.
Jalen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name originating as a coinage, of modern American usage; variant form Jaylen.
Jaylen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name originating as a coinage, of modern American usage; variant form Jalen.
chiltepin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪlˈtɛpɪn/
Forms: form: chiltepins
Etymology: From Nahuatl; the first element is chilli (“pepper”), the second is tecpin (“flea”).
Senses: glosses: A wild chile pepper variety, Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum, found in Mexico and the southwestern US.
Synonyms: chiltepe
Derived terms: Chiltepin yellow mosaic virus
geared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)d
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gear
geared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)d
Senses: glosses: Fitted with (some kind or number of) gears.
glosses: Connected with a motor by gearing.
Derived terms: double-geared
geared turbofan
multigeared
NSPA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NSPAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of network service point address.
Related terms: NSAP address
NSAP address
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NSAP addresses
Etymology: Short for network service access point address.
Senses: glosses: An identifying label for network endpoints, used in OSI networking.
Related terms: NSPA
portamenti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portamento
incorruptibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin incorruptibilitas.
Senses: examples: text: In short—which is the strongest proof that can be given of the excellence of her heart, and the incorruptibility of her honour, she, at eighteen, was as spotless a character at Little Hockley, as the most innocent inhabitant of her age and sex could be at Castlewick.
ref: 1793, Charles Dibdin, chapter 8, in The Younger Brother, volume 2, page 85:
text: Nowadays, with our modern mania for morality, every one has to pose as a paragon of purity, incorruptibility, and all the other seven deadly virtues—and what is the result? You all go over like ninepins—one after the other.
ref: 1895, Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, act I:
text: In South Africa men are proud of their Judges, because they believe they are incorruptible. Even the black men have faith in them, though they do not always have faith in the Law. In a land of fear this incorruptibility is like a lamp set upon a stand, giving light to all that are in the house.
ref: 1948, Alan Paton, chapter 22, in Cry, the Beloved Country, New York: Scribner, page 158:
glosses: The condition of being incorruptible; honesty.
examples: text: 1618, Anonymous translator, A Manuall of Devout Meditations and Exercises by Tomás de Villacastín, Book 3, Meditation 12, Point 1, p. 510, facsimile reprint in D. M. Rogers (editor), English Recusant Literature, 1558-1640, Volume 326, Menston: The Scolar Press, 1976,
Gather hence great joy at the Resurrection of the B. Virgin, and the incorruptibility of her body, the rare and speciall priviledge graunted unto her by her most holy Son, who fullfilled the desires of her soule.
text: The Being of a God, and Incorruptibility of the Soul, those great Articles of Religion, are they not proved with the clearest and most immediate Evidence?
ref: 1713, George Berkeley, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, London: Henry Clements, Dialogue 3, page 155:
text: The PEACOCK, in ancient times, was possessed of a mystic character. The fabled incorruptibility of its flesh led to its typifying the Resurrection; and from this incorruptibility, doubtless, originated the first idea of swearing “by the Peacock,” an oath that was to be inviolably kept.
ref: 1867, Jacob Larwood, John Camden Hotten, The History of Signboards, London: Chatto & Windus:
glosses: The condition of never decaying or decomposing (especially, as ascribed to the bodies of holy people in Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christianity).
uncovering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncover
uncovering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uncoverings
Senses: examples: text: In partial compensation for this narrowed destiny the white world has lavished its politeness on its womankind,—its chivalry and bows, its uncoverings and courtesies—all the accumulated homage disused for courts and kings[…]
ref: 1969, William Edward Burghardt DuBois, Dark Water: Voices from Within the Veil:
text: Although clearly we play a part in particular uncoverings of entities, the discovery of particular truths, we have no control over basic modes of revealing and revealedness, concealing and concealedness.
ref: 2000, Paul Gorner, Twentieth Century German Philosophy, page 158:
glosses: The act by which something is uncovered.
self-regulating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-regulating
form: most self-regulating
Etymology: From self- + regulating.
Senses: examples: text: The motor was self-regulating, until the governor broke and it suddenly raced out of control.
glosses: Able to control itself.
examples: text: Lawyers are self-regulating through the bar association, which sets standards and imposes penalties.
glosses: Of an organization, establishing standards for itself rather than having them legislated for it by government.
self-reproach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-reproaches
Etymology: From self- + reproach.
Senses: examples: text: Besides the jar of contrast there came to her a chill self-reproach that she had not returned sooner, to help her mother in these domesticities, instead of indulging herself out-of-doors.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 29:
glosses: Blame or condemnation directed at the self, as by the conscience.
self-righteousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self-righteous + -ness or self- + righteousness.
Senses: examples: text: The book of Job warns us against self-righteousness, since no man can justify himself to God.
text: The heroines of these plays speak out against intraracial biases, stereotyping, lynchmobs, illiteracy, poverty, promiscuity, self-righteousness, verbally abusive men, rape, and miscegenation. […] Without warning the doctor, she chokes the life out of her child in order to keep him safe from white lynchmobs.
ref: 1990, Elizabeth Brown-Guillory, “Preface”, in Wines in the Wilderness: Plays by African American Women from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present, New York, N.Y.: Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, page xiv:
text: There was no tedious self-righteousness on the night of the gala event. The charity auction invited bids for a night out at the Windmill Club (a lapdancing venue in Soho) and a course of plastic surgery, offered as an opportunity to “Add spice to your wife”
ref: 2018 January 25, Amelia Gentleman, “Men-only clubs and menace: how the establishment maintains male power”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Confidence in one's own righteousness, self-assurance, smug.
self-sacrifice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-sacrifices
Etymology: From self- + sacrifice.
Senses: examples: text: Caring for a loved one with a chronic illness inevitably involves self-sacrifice.
text: Whatever he was suffering, it was she who had caused it; he had vacated his house on account of her. She was not worth such self-sacrifice; she should not have accepted it of him.
ref: 1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, chapter VIII, in The Woodlanders […], volume III, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 165:
text: Some of those boys came straight from the cornfields with only a summer’s wages in their pockets, hung on through the four years, shabby and underfed, and completed the course by really heroic self-sacrifice.
ref: 1918, Willa Cather, My Ántonia, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Book 3, Chapter 1, p. 292:
text: Turians have a strong inclination towards public service and self-sacrifice, so they tend to be poor entrepreneurs.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Turians: Culture Codex entry:
text: […] he turned his resourceful mind away from the serene life of a don on grass lawns in Cambridge to one of self-sacrifice and pure devotion in the thorny bushes of Africa.
ref: 2012, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, chapter 15, in In the House of the Interpreter, New York: Anchor Books, published 2015, pages 43–44:
synonyms: self-abnegation
self-denial
glosses: The giving up of one's own benefit for the good of others.
examples: text: His brave self-sacrifice won him a posthumous medal, but I think he'd have preferred to receive it in person.
text: [Scott’s Last Expedition] had been one of my own favourite books. It seemed curiously dated now, this heroism with only the ice for enemy, self-sacrifice that involved no deaths beyond one’s own.
ref: 1951, Graham Greene, The End of the Affair, New York: Pocket Books, Book 5, Chapter 6, p. 215:
text: However, something once happened on the railway there which showed the very best of mankind: heroism, duty, self-sacrifice and calm professionalism under terrible pressure. It is a story which gives us far, far better reasons for remembering this attractive little town, which without these heroes would have been blown to smithereens in a gigantic explosion. (Two railwaymen lost their lives in 1944 when a wagon in an ammunition train caught fire and blew up, an even worse disaster was averted however.)
ref: 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 42:
glosses: The act of making the ultimate sacrifice of giving up one's life for a cause.
Related terms: self-sacrificer
self-sacrificing
self-sacrificingly
self-sacrifices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-sacrifice
self-sacrificing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-sacrificing
form: most self-sacrificing
Etymology: From self- + sacrificing.
Senses: examples: text: Mother Teresa's self-sacrificing nature made her world-famous.
text: It [Troutbeck] has religious isolation also, for it is several miles—and very strenuous miles in winter—from the parish church at Mungrisdale, and the introduction of the harmonium to the waiting room was due to the zeal of a vicar of many years ago who, in the absence of any other room in the village, obtained permission to use the premises for services, including Sunday School. Most of his successors have continued this self-sacrificing duty.
ref: 1951 October, “Notes and News: The Harmonium at Troutbeck”, in Railway Magazine, page 709:
synonyms: word: self-abnegatory
word: self-denying
word: abstemious
word: self-abnegatory
word: self-denying
word: self-flagellatory
word: self-sacrificing
glosses: Making, or willing to make, a self-sacrifice.
Derived terms: self-sacrificingly
self-sacrificing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From self- + sacrificing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of self-sacrifice
self-serve
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + serve.
Senses: examples: text: Self-serve gas stations are popular with owners because they need fewer attendants.
synonyms: serve-self
;
self-service
antonyms: full-service
glosses: Describing a facility in which the customer performs the work rather than being waited on.
Related terms: single-serve
self-willed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-willed
form: most self-willed
Etymology: From Middle English selfe-willed, selwillyd, equivalent to self- + willed. Compare Middle English onwille, anewil (“selfwilled, stubborn”), from Old English ānwille (literally “one-willed, one's own-willed, self-willed”).
Senses: examples: text: Emma perceived that the nature of his gallantry was a little self-willed, and that he would rather oppose than lose the pleasure of dancing with her; but she took the compliment, and forgave the rest. Had she intended ever to marry him, it might have been worth while to pause and consider, and try to understand the value of his preference, and the character of his temper; but for all the purposes of their acquaintance, he was quite amiable enough.
ref: 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume II, chapter 11:
text: But then Pen was different. Pen was a man. It seemed natural somehow that he should be self-willed and should have his own way.
ref: 1948-50, William Makepeace Thackeray, Pendennis, ch 25
text: He was so self-willed that he refused to do anything that did not grant instant satisfaction or direction.
glosses: Obstinate; strong-minded; unyielding to the desires, concern or opinions of others.
examples: text: The idea of self-willed machines, which could decide to take over the world, scares all the people smart enough to create such devices.
glosses: Possessing self-will; determined to pursue one's own desires or adhere to one's own opinion..
Derived terms: self-willedness
self-consciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛlfˈkɑnʃəsnəs/
Etymology: From self- + consciousness.
Senses: examples: text: [A]nd that one great and all-important occasion and provocative of these beliefs was actually the rise of self-consciousness — that is, the coming of the mind to a more or less distinct awareness of itself and of its own operation, and the consequent development and growth of Individualism, and of the Self-centred attitude in human thought and action.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 165:
glosses: The awareness of the self as an entity.
examples: text: Adam Gopnik has, by many accounts, including his own, a lovely life. A longtime staff writer for the New Yorker and bestselling author, Gopnik lives in Manhattan with his wife, Martha, a film-maker, and their two children, and he moves in the kind of circles that allow him to drop casual lines into conversation such as: “As John Updike once said to me …”, although he has the nervy Jewish self-consciousness to follow that with “… if you’ll forgive the namedrop.”
ref: 2017 December 8, Hadley Freeman, “Adam Gopnik: ‘You’re waltzing along and suddenly you’re portrayed as a monster of privilege’”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Shyness; a feeling of unease in social situations.
Synonyms: shyness
self-aggrandizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-aggrandizing
form: most self-aggrandizing
Etymology: From self- + aggrandizing.
Senses: examples: text: His self-aggrandizing talk alienated his colleagues, who had done the work he claimed credit for.
glosses: Boastful; intended to make oneself seem more important.
Related terms: self-aggrandizement
hand-me-downs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hand-me-down
malae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪˌli/
Senses: glosses: plural of mala
living dead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: The undead; zombies, vampires, etc.
raw_tags: with the
living dead
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This “living dead” industry has been written off time and time again, yet it continues to clamber back to its feet and lumber blindly onward.
ref: 2012, Gar Smith, Nuclear Roulette:
text: Venture's investment in Black Hawk could turn out to be a complete failure (black hole), barely surviving (living dead), or wildly successful (venture utopia).
ref: 2014, J. Chris Leach, Ronald W. Melicher, Entrepreneurial Finance, page 423:
glosses: Existing in stasis, without meaningful activity or development.
meet one's maker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: meets one's maker
form: meeting one's maker
form: met one's maker
form: met one's maker
Etymology: In various religions, when a person dies, they go to a supernatural place like heaven where they may meet their creator deity.
Senses: examples: text: On the gallows high he has met his Maker...Your victim waits for you to meet your Maker
ref: 1871, Unknown (Execution ballad), “Execution of Frederick Baker.”, in Curiosities of Street Literature, Comprising "cocks," Or "catch Pennies", page 205:
text: He didn't die for a half-hour after that; nor did he speak again—aloud; but just a few seconds before he went to meet his Maker, his lips moved in a faint whisper.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
text: This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies!
ref: 1969 December 7, Monty Python, “Full Frontal Nudity, Dead Parrot sketch”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, spoken by Mr Praline (John Cleese):
glosses: To die or to pass into the afterlife.
death penalty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the death penalty
form: death penalties
Etymology: From death + penalty.
Senses: examples: text: And if you would like one more fact about this worthy, he was responsible for an Act on the statute book abolishing the death penalty for cattle rustling.
ref: 2021 September 22, Stephen Roberts, “The writings on the wall...”, in RAIL, number 940, page 71:
text: Joe Biden deserves the death penalty and Jonald Trump bad.
ref: 2024 June 4, very tall bart, 0:09 from the start, in [YTP] Jordan Peterson confesses, spoken by Joe Biden (Joe Biden):
topics: law
synonyms: capital punishment
execution
Texas justice
glosses: A punishment in which the offender is put to death by the state.
Derived terms: corporate death penalty
Usenet Death Penalty
necrolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From necro- + -latry.
Senses: glosses: The practice of worshipping or revering the dead.
Derived terms: necrolatrous
necrological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more necrological
form: most necrological
Etymology: From necrology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a necrology.
Derived terms: necrologically
necrological service
necrologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: necrologists
Etymology: From necro- + -logist.
Senses: glosses: A person who compiles a necrology.
necroscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: necroscopies
Etymology: From necro- + -scopy.
Senses: glosses: A necropsy.
necrose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: necroses
form: necrosing
form: necrosed
form: necrosed
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: To become necrotic.
Derived terms: myonecrose
necrotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: necrotomies
Etymology: From necro- + -tomy.
Senses: glosses: The dissection of a cadaver.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The surgical removal of dead tissue, especially bone.
Synonyms: sense: dissection of a cadaver
word: autopsy
sense: dissection of a cadaver
word: necropsy
sense: dissection of a cadaver
word: post mortem
Derived terms: necrotomist
oscillating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oscillating
form: most oscillating
Senses: examples: text: But if he be admitted to have been fixed, as he declares, it admits of proof that he has a species of fixedness belonging to him of a very oscillating kind; which may be best illustrated by that of a ship riding off at sea by a single anchor, which at every turn of the tide swings about, and brings her head round to a point of the compass diametrically opposite to that it stood toward before.
ref: 1797, An Address to the Nation, Shewing the Necessity of Forming an Armed Association, in Consequence of the Conspiracy of the Republicans in Ireland to Subvert the Constitution, pages 140–1:
text: In general the experiments proved that in nephritis the secretion of the gastric mucosa is vitiated. This vitiation is exceedingly oscillating.
ref: 1891, Joshua M. Van Cott, Jr., “Pathology”, in The Brooklyn Medical Journal, volume 5, page 741:
text: When examining work on the history of sociology, however, one finds a more oscillating pattern: disciplinary marginality, followed by greater centrality, followed by a return to the margins.
ref: 2014, Charles Camic, “Periphery toward Center and Back: Scholarship on the History of Sociology, 1945–2012”, in Roger E. Backhouse, Philippe Fontaine, editors, A Historiography of the Modern Social Sciences, →ISBN, page 101:
coordinate_terms: reciprocating
rotating
vibrating
glosses: Moving in a repeated back-and-forth motion; coming and going.
examples: text: Highly oscillating sequences converge in the weak topology, i.e., the topology of convergence of integral means.
ref: 2002, Eduard Feireisl, “Viscous and/or heat conducting compressible fluids”, in Susan Friedlander, Denis Serre, editors, Handbook of Mathematical Fluid Dynamics, →ISBN, page 355:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing a function or divergent series that moves between multiple values.
Derived terms: nonoscillating
oscillatingly
oscillating tool
oscillating wave test system
superoscillating
unoscillating
oscillating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oscillate
oscillated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oscillate
auroch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aurochs
Etymology: Back-formation from aurochs.
Senses: examples: text: The truth is, he says, that the first of these skulls is that of an auroch, with no difference which can reasonably be considered as specific; and the second belongs, he conceives, simply to the species of our domestic ox, of which it has all the characters.
ref: 1814, James Parkinson, Organic Remains of a Former World, page 322:
text: Cuvier thus carefully marks the distinctions between the species: “The forehead of the ox is flat and a little concave; —that of the auroch protuberant, although less so than the buffalo's; […]
ref: 1839, Henry Woods, Description of the Fossil Skull of an Ox, page 23:
text: The next time they darted in at the auroch, Marra nipped at its ear and Pell actually took its jowls in his mouth.
ref: 2012, Dorothy Hearst, Secrets of the Wolves, page 286:
glosses: Alternative form of aurochs.
intervarsity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)sɪti
Etymology: From inter- + varsity.
Senses: examples: text: Oxford stands for intra-varsity in addition to intervarsity sport.
ref: 1914 (Apr), L. C. Hull, "Athletics at Oxford: The New Rules", The American Oxonian 1(1): 23
text: Yet, while its Lillie Bridge ground staged the inter-varsity match and the national amateur championships ...
ref: 2004, Mike Huggins, The Victorians and sport:
text: This intervarsity meet was held in the South China Athletic Association's new Caroline Hill Stadium ...
ref: 2006, S. F. Lam, Julian W. Chang, The quest for gold: fifty years of amateur sports in Hong Kong:
text: The fencers lunged and parried their way to a Western Canadian Intervarsity Athletic Union championship.
ref: 2006, James M. Pitsula, As one who serves: the making of the University of Regina:
glosses: taking place between universities
intervarsity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)sɪti
Forms: form: intervarsities
Etymology: From inter- + varsity.
Senses: examples: text: As a player Craven took part in seven Intervarsities with remarkable success[…]Asked which Intervarsities were special, he said they were all special.
ref: 1994, Paul Dobson, Doc: The Life of Danie Craven, pages 76–77:
text: I responded by saying that the intervarsity was a student affair and had to be taken up with the students.
ref: 2000, Stuart Saunders, Vice-chancellor on a tightrope:
text: Much the same could be said for the annual intervarsities between the universities of Cape Town and Stellenbosch
ref: 2005, Saul Dubow, Alan Jeeves, South Africa's 1940s: worlds of possibilities:
glosses: A competition taking place between universities.
residence permit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: residence permits
Senses: glosses: The right to legally reside in a country.
Related terms: permanent residency
albos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of albo
albas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ălʹbəz
ipa: /ˈæl.bəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of alba
oil platform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oil platforms
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: (broadly synonymous) oil rig, drill rig, drilling rig
glosses: A large structure used to house workers and machinery needed to drill and then produce oil and natural gas in the ocean.