cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
boggart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boggarts
Etymology: As a monster that feeds on fear, coined by British novelist J. K. Rowling in 1999 in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Senses: examples: text: OH! Maeſter—ſtrange things late I've ſeen— / And oft has boggart-haunted been ! / I'm ſure I's falt when ſtory's-tauld, / 'Till blude run aw' through veins ſo cauld !
ref: 1787, William Collins, “Song XXV: A Lancaſhire Farmer's deſcription of an Earthquake”, in The New Vocal Miscellany, or, A Fountain of Pure Harmony; Containing Sixty New Songs, page 32:
text: “[…]Are na ye shamed, ye weak gawly, that ye darena stir ower the threshold for fear of a boggart?”
ref: 1821, Lee Gibbons, chapter III, in The Cavalier, volume II, page 48:
text: Hoggart's Leap is a weird name, suggesting to the uninitiated some connection with a local tradition and a boggart or a barguest of Swaledale renown ; but I believe that Hoggart is really a family name, there being Hoggarth's Farm about two miles further up the Swale.
ref: 1897 August 24, Harwood Brierley, “The Swale and Its Waterfalts”, in Sylvanus Urban, editor, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume CCLXXXIII, page 191:
text: […]but when it came to a question of standing up against the boggart of Arden—a thing, in the popular imagination, composed of neither flesh, blood, nor bones—even a physical giant had qualms and misgivings, and so had Joseph Wand.
ref: 1898 December 24, George Morley, “The Sleeping Beauty. A Woodlander's Adventure”, in Sylvanus Urban, editor, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume CCLXXXV, The Verger and the Woodman, page 532:
glosses: Alternative spelling of boggard (A bogey, a ghost)
examples: text: "A boogeyman," I said. "Sometimes known as a boggle or a boggart. It's a weak form of phobophage - a fear-eater, mostly insubstantial."
ref: 2018 June 5, Jim Butcher, Brief Cases: The Dresden Files, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: I pushed open the lid, half-expecting a Boggart to burst out of the trunk, taking the form of my worst nightmare.
ref: 2019 March 25, Autumn Reed, Touch of Wrath, Autumn Reed:
text: The boggart has brought you here because it hopes to feed off you like it has been trying to feed off me.
ref: 2021 April 27, C. T. Phipps, Michael Suttkus, A Nightmare on Elk Street, Crossroad Press:
topics: fantasy
glosses: A shapeshifting monster that feeds on fear.
Related terms: urls: https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Boggart
word: Boggart
urls: https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Boggart
word: on Harry Potter Wiki
beurre manié
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French beurre manié (“kneaded butter”), from beurre (“butter”) + manié (“kneaded”).
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A dough consisting of equal parts of soft butter and flour, used to thicken soups and sauces.
blackaviced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blackaviced
form: most blackaviced
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blackavised.
wildings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wilding
pedion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πεδίον (pedíon, “plain, field”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An asymmetric triclinic crystal form that only has one face.
morbid obesity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The condition of being morbidly obese.
peaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of peach
peached
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of peach
pointblank
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: We had many hot discussions on the topic, and it ended by my refusing pointblank to marry Miss Sherman at all.
ref: 1913, Rex Stout, Her Forbidden Knight, Carroll & Graf, published 1997, →ISBN, page 149:
glosses: point blank
skeletonlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skeletonlike
form: most skeletonlike
Etymology: From skeleton + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The myriads of tiny twinkling lights with their background of mysterious half darkness, the skeletonlike forms of the massive buildings, barely revealed, and[…]
ref: 1913, Rex Stout, Her Forbidden Knight, Carroll & Graf, published 1997, →ISBN, page 167:
glosses: Like a skeleton.
hoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoo
hozen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: thy Hozen muxy up zo vurs thy Gammerels to tha very Hucksheens o' tha
ref: 1746, Exmoor Courtship, published 1879, page 42:
glosses: stockings; hose
Twister
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In the foyer, a game of Twister has started. It's appealing because all of the women are wearing lowriders.
ref: 2008, Daccia Bloomfield, Dora Borealis:
glosses: A party game that requires several players on a single mat to straddle four colored rows of dots in randomly selected positions without falling.
happy-clappies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of happy-clappy
brush-offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brushoffs
form: brush offs
Senses: examples: For the first time, we in the SF ghetto are beginning to get criticism – not brush-offs from literary snobs.
glosses: plural of brush-off
brushoffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: I knocked on a few random editor's doors, but was met by frantic stares and hurried brushoffs.
glosses: plural of brushoff
pattern board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pattern boards
Senses: glosses: A pole-mounted steel board, usually whitewashed, used by shotgunners to assess the spread of the shot.
amiloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈmɪl.ə.ɹaɪd/
Forms: form: amilorides
Etymology: Probably from ami(dino) + (ch)lor- + -(am)ide.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A diuretic C₆H₈ClN₇O that promotes sodium excretion and potassium retention; any related compound.
Related terms: -poride
amyloidotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to amyloidosis
morro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morros
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish morro.
Senses: glosses: A round hill or point of land.
antimouse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-mouse
Etymology: From anti- + mouse.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Describing an antibody, resident in a human or other animal, that reacts with any antigen found in (and with some relevant degree of specificity to) mice.
Related terms: antihuman
antirabbit
antiserum
antirabbit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-rabbit
Etymology: From anti- + rabbit.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Describing an antibody, resident in a human or other animal, that reacts with any antigen found in (and with some relevant degree of specificity to) rabbits.
Related terms: antihuman
antimouse
antiserum
antitumoural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antitumoural
form: most antitumoural
Senses: glosses: antitumour
attomole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attomoles
Etymology: From atto- + mole.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: 10⁻¹⁸ of a mole. This is only about 600,000 particles.
biodiagnostic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + diagnostic.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: biochemically diagnostic
Related terms: biodiagnostics
biparentally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From biparental + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a biparental manner
capillarogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From capillaro- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The formation and development of capillaries
carcinoembryonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From carcino- + embryonic.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Describing any material (but especially a glycoprotein) that is present in patients with some cancers and also in healthy fetuses
Derived terms: carcinoembryonic antigen
Related terms: carcinoembryogenic
carcinosarcoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carcinosarcomas
form: carcinosarcomata
Etymology: From carcino- + sarcoma.
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
glosses: Any malignant neoplasm that has characteristics of both a carcinoma and a sarcoma
cholangiocarcinomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cholangiocarcinoma
cholangiopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cholangiopathy
cholangiopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cholangiopathies
Etymology: From cholangio- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease of the bile ducts
Related terms: cholangiopathic
clinicodemographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From clinico- + demographic.
Senses: glosses: Describing the demographics of clinical factors.
coactivated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + activated.
Senses: glosses: activated along with another
coactivated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From co- + activated.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coactivate
coamplified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + amplified.
Senses: glosses: amplified along with another
coamplified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From co- + amplified.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coamplify
colocalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colocalisations
Etymology: From co- + localisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of colocalization.
colocalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of colocalise
cosuppression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From co- + suppression.
Senses: glosses: The simultaneous suppression of two or more things.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: RNA interference.
countereffect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countereffects
Etymology: From counter- + effect.
Senses: glosses: An effect that is the opposite of another (especially another that has the same cause)
requestion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: requestions
form: requestioning
form: requestioned
form: requestioned
Etymology: From re- + question.
Senses: glosses: To question again.
requestions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of requestion
requestioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of requestion
requestioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of requestion
miscarriage of justice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪs.kæ.ɹɪd͡ʒ ɒv ˈd͡ʒʌ.stɪs/
ipa: /-əv ˈd͡ʒʌ.stəs/
ipa: /ˈmɪs.kæ.ɹɪd͡ʒ ɑv ˈd͡ʒʌ.stɪs/
ipa: /-əv ˈd͡ʒʌ.stəs/
note: US, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈmɪs.kɛ.ɹɪd͡ʒ-/
Forms: form: miscarriages of justice
Senses: examples: text: The Incarcerations is an unsettling indictment of Modi's India, and alleges grave miscarriages of justice, […].
ref: 2024 May 4, John Reed, “How to interpret India?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 9:
topics: law
glosses: An error at a trial which led to an unjust outcome, such as the conviction of a person for a crime they did not commit.
second guesser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second guessers
form: second-guesser
Etymology: From second + guesser. First use appears c. 1937. By a back-formation, second-guess as a verb appears a few years later in 1941.
From second guess + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Such a change of heart in MacPhail, or any other second guesser, is unlikely.
ref: 1988 October, George Vass, “World Series: A Magnet for the Second-Guessers”, in Baseball Digest, volume 47, number 10, Lakeside Publishing Company, ISSN 0005-609X, page 21
glosses: A person who second-guesses.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: originally
glosses: A person, particularly a fan, who questions or criticizes decisions made by the players or managers, especially after the results of those actions are known.
Derived terms: second-guess
second-guesser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second-guessers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of second guesser.
cytofluorogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytofluorograms
Etymology: From cyto- + fluorogram.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A two-dimensional scatterplot of the spatial and intensity data from fluorescence microscopy of a biological material that shows molecular colocalisation and interaction
cytomorphological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyto- + morphological.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to cytomorphology
cytopathological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyto- + pathological.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to cytopathology
Derived terms: cytopathologically
immunocytopathological
deoptimized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: deoptimised
Etymology: From de- + optimized.
Senses: glosses: modified so as not to be optimum
deparaffinised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of deparaffinized.
deparaffinized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Describing a biological sample from which the paraffin wax used to preserve it has been removed
diethylpyrocarbonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From diethyl + pyrocarbonate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The diethyl ester of pyrocarbonic acid; it is used in biochemistry to inactivate ribonucleases
liquid gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liquid gases
Senses: glosses: A chemical element or compound which is normally found in gaseous form, but which is in a liquid state due to being pressurised or kept at a low temperature, or both, usually for storage and transport purposes.
Related terms: liquid air
liquid nitrogen
liquid oxygen
liquefied natural gas
liquefied petroleum gas
liquid gases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liquid gas
liquid air
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Air which is in a liquid state due to being pressurized or kept at a low temperature, or both, usually for storage and transport purposes.
Related terms: liquid helium
liquid oxygen
liquid nitrogen
liquified natural gas
liquefied petroleum gas
unsling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unslings
form: unslinging
form: unslung
form: unslung
Etymology: From un- + sling.
Senses: examples: text: The hunter unslung his rifle and took a bead on the hare.
glosses: to take something from a hanging or slung position.
unslings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unsling
unslinging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unsling
domestical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more domestical
form: most domestical
form: domesticall
Etymology: From Latin domesticus + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Our private and domestical matter.
ref: a. 1587 (date written), Phillip Sidney [i.e., Philip Sidney], An Apologie for Poetrie. […], London: […] [James Roberts] for Henry Olney, […], published 1595, →OCLC; republished as Edward Arber, editor, An Apologie for Poetrie (English Reprints), London: [Alexander Murray & Son], 1 April 1868, →OCLC:
text: It were a kind of treason to do so in our owne affaires and domesticall [translating domestiques] matters, wherein of necessity one must resolve and take a side; but for a man that hath neither charge nor expresse commandement to urge him, not to busie or entermedle himselfe therein, I holde it more excusable […]
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter I, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book III, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Domestic.
domestical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domesticall
Etymology: From Latin domesticus + -al.
Senses: glosses: A domestic; a household servant; a member of a household.
extrinsical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extrinsical
form: most extrinsical
Senses: examples: text: A body cannot move, unless it be moved by some extrinsical agent: we may easily frame a conceit, how absurd it is to think that a body, by a quality in it, can work upon itself.
ref: 1644, Kenelm Digby, The Nature of Bodies:
text: Neither is the atom by any extrinsical impulse diverted from its natural course.
ref: 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.:
text: Outward objects, that are extrinsical to the mind; and its own operations, proceeding from powers intrinsical, and proper to itself, which, when reflected on by itself, become also objects of its contemplation, are the original of all knowledge.
ref: 1689, John Locke, Of Ideas in general, and their Original, Book II , Chapter I.:
glosses: Extrinsic.
Derived terms: extrinsicality
extrinsicalness
extrinsical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extrinsicals
Senses: glosses: Something that is extrinsic.
amphitheatrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amphitheatrical
form: most amphitheatrical
Senses: examples: text: A new Chapel, of novel design, being of an amphitheatrical form, has been recently completed, from the designs of W. Brooks, architect.
ref: 1829, “Metropolitan Improvements”, in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, volume 13, number 361, page 184:
text: The hall was fitted up with an amphitheatrical descent of seats towards a platform, on which stood a desk, two lights, a stool, and a capacious antique chair.
ref: 1852, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance:
text: In the high, amphitheatrical Nicolai Hall that afternoon I saw the Duma sitting in permanence, tempestuous, grouping around it all the forces of opposition.
ref: 1919, John Reed, Ten Days That Shook the World:
glosses: Having some of the characteristics of an amphitheatre.
Derived terms: amphitheatricality
amphitheatrically
bites the bullet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bite the bullet
biting the bullet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bite the bullet
bit the bullet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bite the bullet
excur
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: excurs
form: excurring
form: excurred
form: excurred
Etymology: From Latin excurro.
Senses: glosses: To digress.
glosses: To pass beyond limits; to go to or towards an extreme.
glosses: To take an excursion.
schlich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schlichs
form: slich
form: slick
Etymology: From German Schlich.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: The finer portion of crushed ore, as of gold, lead, or tin, separated by the water in certain wet processes.
distracters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distracter
downmodulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of downmodulate
downmodulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: downmodulates
form: downmodulating
form: downmodulated
form: downmodulated
Etymology: From down- + modulate.
Senses: glosses: To modulate to a lower level.
Related terms: downmodulation
ductopenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ductopenia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to ductopenia.
ductopenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A reduction in the number of intrahepatic bile ducts
Derived terms: ductopenic
ductular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ductule + -ar.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a ductule
Derived terms: paraductular
periductular
dyshesive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈhiːsɪv/
Forms: form: more dyshesive
form: most dyshesive
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or causing dyshesion
dyshesion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of dys- + cohesion
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
glosses: A loss of ordered cohesion between cells.
econiche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: econiches
Etymology: From eco- + niche.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: An ecological niche
ectocervix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ectocervixes
form: ectocervices
Etymology: From ecto- + cervix.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The part of the cervix that extends into the vagina
Coordinate terms: exocervix
endocervix
endocervix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endocervixes
form: endocervices
Etymology: From endo- + cervix.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The mucous membrane of the cervical canal.
Coordinate terms: ectocervix
exocervix
embryologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From embryology + -ic.
Senses: glosses: embryological
endometrioid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more endometrioid
form: most endometrioid
Etymology: From endometrium + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Resembling endometrial tissue
Derived terms: nonendometrioid
eotaxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eotaxins
Senses: glosses: chemokine
extrathymic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + thymic.
Senses: glosses: That originates outside of the thymus gland
Derived terms: extrathymically
wrist rest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrist rests
Senses: glosses: A padded platform that raises the wrists above a keyboard.
Related terms: bookrest
mouse pad
reading desk
anthypophora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænθəpəfɔɹə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνθυποφορά (anthupophorá); see anti- and hypophora.
Senses: glosses: A device in which the author poses an opposing argument, then immediately refutes it.
Coordinate terms: hypophora
bookrest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookrests
Etymology: From book + rest.
Senses: glosses: A support used to maintain a book or sheet when reading.
Coordinate terms: lectern
pocones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of puccoon.
rarowcun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of raccoon.
bookrests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bookrest
ooft
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oof.
fibroblastoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fibroblast + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a fibroblast.
Derived terms: myofibroblastoid
fibroepithelial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fibro- + epithelial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: containing both epithelial and stromal or mesenchymal tissue
Derived terms: fibroepithelial polyp
geomicrobiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geomicrobiologists
Etymology: From geo- + microbiologist.
Senses: glosses: A geologist or microbiologist whose speciality is geomicrobiology.
hardlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hardline
graylag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graylags
Senses: examples: text: 1872, John Cordeaux, Ornithological Notes from North Lincolnshire, Edward Newman (editor), Zoologist: A Popular Miscellany of Natural History, 2nd Series, Volume 7, page 3016,
Wild Geese. — February 29th. Saw a skein of ten wild geese flying a few feet above the Humber this morning : from their size and colour I believe them to have been graylags.
text: Eventually a few graylags landed; the Professor dug into his bucket, scattered some barley grain about, and started to scribble notes.
ref: 1973, Ivan Newton MacCollom, Nancy Lloyd Badore, Exploring Psychology: Introductory Readings, page 405:
text: With reference to Konrad Lorenz's famous graylags, which assure each other of their solidarity by the display of common aggression against a nonexistent interloper, Burkert defines ritual as “action redirected for demonstration.”
ref: 2012, Mikael Aktor, “Negotiating Karma: Penance in the Classical Indian Law Books”, in Ute Hüsken, Frank Neubert, editors, Negotiating Rites, page 24:
glosses: Alternative spelling of greylag.
Synonyms: sense: greylag goose
word: greylag
guggulsterone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guggulsterones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A steroid, present in the resin of the guggul plant, Commiphora mukul, that is used in some medical preparations
haemotologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemotologists
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hematologist.
likish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more likish
form: most likish
form: likeish
Etymology: From like + -ish.
Senses: glosses: alike, similar
heterochromatinisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of heterochromatinization.
hypoinsulinaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + insulinaemia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of an unusually low level of insulin in the bloodstream
Related terms: hyperinsulinaemia
insulinaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From insulin + -aemia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The (normal) presence of insulin in the bloodstream
Related terms: hyperinsulinaemia
hypoinsulinaemia
immunopeptidomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
immunology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The branch of molecular biology that studies the set of immunopeptides of an organism
Related terms: immunopeptidome
immunopeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunopeptides
Etymology: From immuno- + peptide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
immunology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any peptide involved in the biochemistry of the immune system
Derived terms: immunopeptidome
neuroimmunopeptide
hepar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hepars
Etymology: From Latin hepar (“liver”). Cf. liver of antimony.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: liver of sulphur; a substance of a liver-brown colour, sometimes used in medicine, formed by fusing sulphur with carbonates of the alkalis (especially potassium).
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any substance resembling hepar in appearance; specifically, in homeopathy, calcium sulphide.
Derived terms: hepar antimonii
mesohepar
Sheremetyevo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An airport in Moscow, Russia.
Feigenbaum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Feigenbaum (“fig tree”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
chomped at the bit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chomp at the bit
Proto-Mon-Khmer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From proto- + Mon-Khmer.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The hypothetical ancestor language or protolanguage of the Mon-Khmer language group, which includes Khmer and Vietnamese.
spirits of salt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Hydrochloric acid.
potash lye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potash lyes
Senses: glosses: Potassium hydroxide.
milk of lime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Calcium hydroxide.
spirit of nitre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Nitric acid.
nitre of potash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Potassium nitrate.
dioxidane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Hydrogen peroxide.
Derived terms: dioxydanidyl
dioxydanidyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Superoxide.
spirits of hartshorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A mixture of ammonia and water.
Related terms: salt of hartshorn
smelling salts
nomen ambiguum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nomina ambigua
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A name which has lost the ability to clearly identify a species because it has regularly been used by different authors to identify different species.
Ukrainica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ucrainica
form: ukrainica
Etymology: First appears c. 1944, from Ukrainian украї́ніка (ukrajínika), influenced by Latin ukrainica.
Senses: examples: text: Ukrainica in American Periodicals [section title]
ref: 1944, The Ukrainian Quarterly, v 1, Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, p 89
text: Yaroslav Rudnyc’kyj, head of the Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Manitoba, came to the United States in mid-year of 1956 to make a study of the Ukrainian holdings at the Library of Congress and to organize an exhibit of rare Ukrainica in that institution.
ref: 1957, Books Abroad, volume 31, University of Oklahoma, page 439:
text: The central children's room of the New York Public Library has as well a sampling of that Ukrainica published in New York City.
ref: 1978, James Howard Fraser, editor, Society & Children's Literature, D.R. Godine, page 89:
text: The following specialized divisions were created: periodicals, Ukrainica, manuscripts, old printed books, Oriental, cartography, and ephemera (advertisements, placards).
ref: 2001, David H. Stam, editor, International Dictionary of Library Dictionaries, volume 2, Taylor & Francis, page 593:
glosses: Literature on the subject of Ukraine or Ukrainian people, especially regarding Ukrainian culture, language, or literature.
Related terms: Americana
Australiana
Baltica
Canadiana
Croatica
Polonica
Russica
Slavica
fumish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fumish
form: most fumish
Etymology: From fume + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Notwithstanding, out of the relicks of our miseries, time and experience had brought that Country to a great happinesse, had they not so much doated on their Tabacco, on whose fumish foundation there is small stability […]
ref: 1631, John Smith, Advertisements, Kupperman, published 1988, page 82:
glosses: Pertaining to fumes or smoke.
Derived terms: fumishness
saxefras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of sassafras.
Proto-Vietic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From proto- + Vietic.
Senses: glosses: The unattested, reconstructed common ancestor of the Vietic languages, including Vietnamese and Mường.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Proto-Vietic terms
interhuman
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + human.
Senses: glosses: Between humans
nanolevitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nano- + levitation.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: levitation of nanoscale objects
nonsaturating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + saturating.
Senses: glosses: That does not saturate
oligoether
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligoethers
Etymology: From oligo- + ether.
Senses: glosses: Any oligomer consisting of ether residues
rebit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪt
Senses: glosses: simple past of rebite
rebit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪt
Forms: form: rebits
Etymology: From re- + bit?
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of an arbitrary number of quantum mechanical binary states that are maximally entangled with every other one (in the real-vector-space theory).
rebits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rebit
researchable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From research + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be researched.
unreconnected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + reconnected.
Senses: glosses: Not reconnected; still disconnected
agamospermy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + gamospermy.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The asexual production of embryos and seeds.
Synonyms: apomixis
Derived terms: agamospermous
becard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: becards
Etymology: From French bécard, bécarde, beccard (“a merganser with a prominent beak”), equivalent to bec (“beak”) + -ard.
Senses: glosses: A South American flycatcher of the genus Pachyramphus.
blackbutt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblakbʌt/
Forms: form: blackbutts
Etymology: From black + butt.
Senses: examples: text: Bothered by the conviction of making no impression on her, he pulled up at a strip of road shaded by tall spotted gums, blackbutt, and honeysuckle, and produced a packet of cigarettes. "About time for a smoke-O," he said, "Have a fag, Cora.'
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 169:
text: I cut new timber with my saw and inhaled the sweet sour smell of blackbutt.
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 175:
glosses: Any of several Australian eucalyptus trees with a dark fibrous bark towards the base of the trunk, especially Eucalyptus pilularis, but also Eucalyptus zopherophloia and Eucalyptus todtiana.
candlefish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candlefishes
form: candlefish
Etymology: From candle + fish.
Senses: glosses: An oily edible fish, Thaleichthys pacificus, from the northern Pacific, that was once dried and used as a candle or torch by the Chinook Indians.
Synonyms: eulachon
hooligan
cassingle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪŋɡəl
Forms: form: cassingles
Etymology: Blend of cassette + single; originally a trademark.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A small cassette containing a single track of popular music on each side
clerkess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clerkesses
Etymology: From clerk + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female clerk.
crabeater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crabeaters
Etymology: From crab + eater.
Senses: glosses: A cobia or sergeant fish (Rachycentron canadum).
glosses: A little bittern; a bird of species Ixobrychus minutus.
examples: text: Although crabeaters often gather on the ice in large numbers, pupping takes place in small groups.
ref: 2002, Maurice Burton, Robert Burton, International Wildlife Encyclopedia: Chickaree - crabs, →ISBN, page 564:
text: Although few observations have been made of feeding crabeaters, it is assumed that they take bites from a swarm of krill, extracting one or two. Crabeaters sometimes feed collectively, which may increase the efficiency of their hunt.
ref: 2002, David G. Campbell, The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica, →ISBN:
text: Also distinguishing them is that crabeaters often have moderate scaring around the head and chest from fights with conspecifics and deep scaring along the body resulting from close encounters with leopard seals.
ref: 2013, Roger Kirkwood, Simon Goldsworthy, Fur Seals and Sea Lions, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: An Antarctic seal (Lobodon carcinophagus) that feeds on krill.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Lobodon carcinophagus
word: crabeater seal
fenestrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fenestrate
form: most fenestrate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fenestrātus, perfect passive participle of fenestrō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from fenestra (“window”).
Senses: glosses: fenestrated
examples: text: fenestrate membranes
text: fenestrate fronds
glosses: Having numerous openings; irregularly reticulated.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having transparent spots, like the wings of certain butterflies.
Derived terms: nonfenestrate
fenestrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fenestrates
form: fenestrating
form: fenestrated
form: fenestrated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fenestrātus, perfect passive participle of fenestrō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from fenestra (“window”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: To cut an opening into.
Related terms: fenestration
fenestrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fenestrates
Etymology: Back-formation from Fenestrata, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
synonyms: fenestrid
glosses: Any extinct bryozoan in the order Fenestrida (also known as Fenestrata).
fireblight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fireblights
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fire blight.
gemmulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gemmulations
Etymology: From gemmule + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: The actual formation of gemmule's by fresh-water sponges is so clearly an adaptation to seasonal climatic changes, that at first it was reasonable to believe that seasonal alternation itself induced the gemmulation.
ref: 1978, Patricia R. Bergquist, Sponges:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The production of gemmules; reproduction via gemmules
guaiacum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡwaɪəkəm/
Forms: form: guaiacums
Etymology: From New Latin, from Spanish guayacan.
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of species of tree of the genus Guaiacum, native to the West Indies and parts of the Americas.
glosses: The wood of such trees
glosses: The resin of such trees.
Synonyms: lignum vitae
Derived terms: guaiacol
clerkesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clerkess
halesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more halesome
form: most halesome
Etymology: Alternately borrowed from Scots halesome (from Middle Scots halsum, then Northern Middle English halesum) or formed anew from hale + -some.
Senses: glosses: wholesome, healthy
headage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headages
Etymology: From head + -age.
Senses: glosses: The number of stock animals on a farm (for example, how many head of cattle).
Related terms: headcount
cornage
hotelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoteling
Etymology: From hotel + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The short-term provision of office space to workers who either are temporary or usually work elsewhere.
Related terms: hot desking
iceblink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iceblinks
Etymology: From ice + blink.
Senses: glosses: A glare in the sky caused by reflection of light from an ice field.
iceblock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iceblocks
Etymology: From ice + block.
Senses: glosses: A block of ice.
examples: text: About this time I′m getting real thirsty and need an iceblock bad so I get on up and go into the dairy and take me a lemonade one, plus an aniseed wheel to keep up my energy.
ref: 1989, Mary Paul (editor, New Women′s Fiction, page 63:
text: We meet at Robson′s corner for an iceblock — Josh, Elliot, Ryan, Finn, and me — searching for something to do.
ref: 2010, J A Mawter, So Feral!, unnumbered page:
text: Of course my daughter said today was iceblock day, which happened to be Friday, so iceblocks became a Friday after-school treat.
ref: 2010, Karen Fischer, Healthy Family, Happy Family: The Complete Healthy Guide to Feeding Your Family, page 58:
glosses: An ice lolly.
instancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instancies
Etymology: From instant + -cy.
Senses: glosses: insistence, insistency
glosses: immediacy, instantaneousness
instantaneity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instantaneities
Senses: glosses: The condition of being instantaneous.
Synonyms: word: instantaneity
word: instantaneousness
word: immediacy
word: immediateness
Hyponyms: word: suddenness
Related terms: word: instantaneous
lophodont
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lopho- + -odont.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having molar teeth that have ridged grinding surfaces.
Derived terms: bilophodont
hexalophodont
lophodonty
tetralophodont
trilophodont
lophophorate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lophophore + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a lophophore.
lophophorate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lophophorates
Etymology: From a substantivation of the above adjective through the associated clade's name. Equivalent to lophophore + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The presence of a lophophore, combined with other features including a U-shaped gut, means that hyoliths are also lophophorates, and not molluscs.
ref: 2017 January 18, Susannah Lydon, The Guardian:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A member of the Lophophorata, a clade of invertebrate animals.
mountainy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mountainy
form: most mountainy
Etymology: From mountain + -y.
Senses: examples: text: His girl, who worked on a mountainy farm above Caerphilly, had written to him about a queer cow […].
ref: 1925, Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 292:
text: The mountainy fields rose quietly outside it towards gorse and heather.
ref: 2013, Molly Keane, Time After Time:
glosses: Mountainous.
oilpaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oilpapers
Etymology: From oil + paper.
Senses: glosses: A translucent, waterproof paper made by soaking in oil.
ornamentalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ornamentalists
Etymology: From ornamental + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An artist who favours an ornamental style.
ornithomimosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ornithomimosaurs
Senses: glosses: Any of several theropod dinosaurs, of the clade Ornithomimosauria, that bore a superficial resemblance to modern ostriches
overfine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overfine
form: most overfine
Etymology: From over- + fine.
Senses: glosses: Excessively fine
petrophysics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From petro- + physics.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The physics of rock, especially rock that acts as a reservoir for petroleum or other fluids
Related terms: petrophysical
petrophysicist
Interregnum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Proprialization from interregnum.
Senses: examples: Meronyms: Commonwealth; Commonwealth of England; Protectorate; Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland
glosses: Ellipsis of British Interregnum, the period of 1649–1660 when an unmonarchical state ruled Britain; the monarchy was then restored.
caf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kăf
ipa: /kæf/
rhymes: -æf
Forms: form: cafs
form: caff
Etymology: Clippings.
Senses: examples: text: Fourth on the list of the businesses my father and his brothers had owned was a caf on the corner of San Ignacio and Lamparilla in Old Havana.
ref: 2008, Carlos Frías, Take Me with You: A Memoir:
glosses: A café.
examples: text: There are plenty of restaurants to choose from when you're sick of the ol’ caf food.
ref: 2005, Amy Davis, Adam Burns, Michigan State University, page 49:
text: Locked, empty classrooms on either side, other halls opening up to go down to the caf, two janitors' closets. Janitors' closets. Great. One was locked.
ref: 2009, Lili St. Crow, Betrayals:
text: One thing they shun is eating in the caf. alone. If you were not with a clique, you are strange. Why? I don't know. I heard the meat is processed and all the food is made by mixing powder with a measured amount of water.
ref: 2010, Cheryl Denise Bannerman, Black Child to Black Woman: A Journey of Tremendous Proportions, page 38:
glosses: A cafeteria.
examples: text: If you decide to cut coffee out completely, consider going down half a cup a day, week by week, if your withdrawal symptoms—headaches and irritability—are severe. Or, mix decaf with caf, increasing the quantity of decaf until you are down to all decaf.
ref: 2007, Karen Gurwitz, Jen Hoy, The Well-Rounded Pregnancy Cookbook: Give Your Baby a Healthy Start with 100 Recipes That Adapt to Fit How You Feel, New York, NY: Crown Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 31:
coordinate_terms: decaf
glosses: A caffeinated coffee.
Derived terms: caf up
Related terms: sense: caffeinated coffee
word: decaf
sense: caffeinated coffee
word: half-caf
oblative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to oblation.
portably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: pôr′tə-blē
ipa: /ˈpɔːɹ.tə.bliː/
ipa: /ˈpoɹ.tə.bli/
ipa: /ˈpoːɹ.tə.bliː/
ipa: /ˈpoːɾ.ʈa.bliː/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)təbli
Forms: form: more portably
form: most portably
Etymology: From portable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a portable manner.
proudhearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proudhearted
form: most proudhearted
form: proud-hearted
Etymology: From Middle English proude-herted, prowd-herted, equivalent to proud + hearted.
Senses: examples: text: This “vicious, corrupt, and debased swarm of outcasts,” Merrick called them, would make an “honest and proudhearted” American freeman “rather die in poverty and want, than dwell among such people.”
ref: 2014, John R. Van Atta, Securing the West: Politics, Public Lands, and the Fate of the Old Republic 1785-1850, →ISBN, page 221:
glosses: Very proud
examples: text: I am afraid I have been proudhearted and arrogant.
ref: 2005, Sheila Carmel, Hana Wirth-Nesher, The Sheila Carmel lectures, 1994-2004, page 180:
glosses: Arrogant
relatival
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪvəl
Etymology: From relative + -al.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: relative
retiral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈtʌɪəɹəl/
Forms: form: retirals
Etymology: From retire + -al.
Senses: glosses: Withdrawal, retreat.
examples: text: By that time I had sold the main business, being past retiral age.
ref: 2003, Alasdair Gray, “Job's Skin Game”, in Every Short Story, Canongate, published 2012, page 731:
glosses: Retirement from employment.
topics: business
finance
glosses: The act of taking up a bill when due.
rigorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪɡəˌɹɪzm/
Forms: form: rigorisms
form: rigourism
Etymology: From rigor + -ism.
Senses: glosses: strictness (in interpreting or enforcing a rule)
topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
theology
synonyms: tutiorism
antonyms: probabilism
glosses: In Roman Catholic moral theology, the doctrine that in a case of doubt between right and wrong one should take the safer course, i.e. the one in verbal accordance with the law.