cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
quern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɝn/
ipa: /kwɜːn/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: querns
form: curn
form: kern
form: quirn
Etymology: From Middle English quern, cwerne, from Old English cweorn (“quern, hand-mill, mill”), from Proto-Germanic *kwernō (“millstone”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂wō (“heavy stone”), from *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”). Cognate with Tocharian B kärweñe, Lithuanian girna, Russian жёрнов (žórnov, “millstone”).
Senses: examples: text: She is shaking in ingredients from various small bottles and querns produced from the pockets of her robes, and from the drawer in the wooden table.
ref: 1978, Robert Nye, Merlin:
text: MacKie has noted that querns that were in use in Scotland up to the present day were about 450mm—600mm in diameter and that the lower stone was completely perforated to make it adjustable (MacKie 1987, 5).
ref: 2005, Anne Crone, Ewan Campbell, A Crannog of the First Millennium, AD: Excavations by Jack Scott at Loch Gloshan, Argyll, 1960, page 100:
text: Not surprisingly, different cultures discovered the suitability of various rock types for manufacturing querns and millstones.
ref: 2009, Charles D. Hockensmith, The Millstone Industry, page 212:
glosses: A mill for grinding corn, especially a handmill made of two circular stones.
Derived terms: beehive quern
quernstone
saddle quern
quern
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɝn/
ipa: /kwɜːn/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: querns
form: querning
form: querned
form: querned
form: curn
form: kern
form: quirn
Etymology: From Middle English quern, cwerne, from Old English cweorn (“quern, hand-mill, mill”), from Proto-Germanic *kwernō (“millstone”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂wō (“heavy stone”), from *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”). Cognate with Tocharian B kärweñe, Lithuanian girna, Russian жёрнов (žórnov, “millstone”).
Senses: examples: text: He could almost set aside the longing for Eyjan that ever querned within him—almost—in this place so utterly sundered from everything of hers.
ref: 1979, Poul Anderson, The Merman's Children, published 2011, unnumbered page:
text: For women he thought these should include combing, spinning, querning, leather and fur-working and be associated with finds of beads, bracelets and perforated teeth.
ref: 2000, Tina Tuohy, “9: Long Handled Weaving Combs: Problems Determining the Gender of Tool-Maker and Tool-User”, in Moira Donald, Linda Hurcombe, editors, Gender and Material Culture in Archaeological Perspective, page 141:
text: Beyond this now lay only chaos and a querning sea. Time's millstones, grinding bones for bread.
ref: 2009, Greer Gilman, Unleaving: Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales, page 262:
text: From the osteology, a supposed link between squatting facets and prehistoric women—and by extension the interpretation that women were engaged in querning activity—is not demonstrated for the Iron Age: of the thirteen with the complaint in Deal, Kent, 62 per cent were male (Anderson 1995: table 29).
ref: 2011, Rachel Pope, Ian Ralston, “17: Approaching Sex and Status in Iron Age Britain with Reference to the Nearer Continent”, in Tom Moore, Thomas Hugh Moore, X. L. Armada, editors, Atlantic Europe in the First Millennium BC: Crossing the Divide, page 401:
glosses: To grind; to use a quern.
Related terms: quirn
quop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɒp/
Forms: form: quops
form: quopping
form: quopped
form: quopped
form: quap
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English quappen, of onomatopoeic origin.
Senses: examples: text: His heart quopped softly.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To throb or beat.
syncope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪŋ.kə.pi/
Forms: form: syncopes
form: syncopé
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin syncopē, from Ancient Greek συγκοπή (sunkopḗ), from συγκόπτω (sunkóptō, “cut up”) + -η (-ē, nominalization suffix), from σύν (sún, “beside, with”) + κόπτω (kóptō, “strike, cut off”).
Senses: examples: text: […]; on the contrary, all syllables subject in the same way to elision, apocope, syncope, and slurring must have the same degree of stress (i.e. they must be alike unaccented) whether preceded by short or by long root-syllables.
ref: 1910, Jakob Schipper, A History of English Versification:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
antonyms: epenthesis
hypernyms: metaplasm
coordinate_terms: apocope
glosses: The elision or loss of a sound from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable.
examples: text: Sometimes, without any apparent cause, I sank, little by little, into a condition of semi-syncope, or half swoon; and, in this condition, without pain, without ability to stir, or, strictly speaking, to think, but with a dull lethargic consciousness of life and of the presence of those who surrounded my bed, I remained, until the crisis of the disease restored me, suddenly, to perfect sensation.
ref: 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial:
text: Schneider, the father of rhinology, mentions a woman in whom the odor of orange-flowers produced syncope.
ref: 1896, George M. Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle, Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine:
text: […]the rapidly-whitening face, the miserable fixed smile, meant a syncope within the next few bars.
ref: 1973, Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise:
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: swoon
faint
fainting
lipothymia
coordinate_terms: near-syncope
presyncope
pre-syncope
pseudosyncope
glosses: A loss of consciousness when fainting.
examples: text: She was a volatile creature, full of mischievous surprise: at their first music practice, after playing over some hymns on the pipe-organ, she burst into jazz, filling the quiet grove with the clamorous syncope of Paddy-Paws, a favourite song that summer.
ref: 1922, Christopher Morley, Where the Blue Begins:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation.
Derived terms: micturition syncope
nonsyncopated
post-micturition syncope
syncopal
syncopate
syncopation
syncopic
syncopist
syncopize
unsyncopated
Havdalah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Habdalah
form: Havdala
form: Havdoloh
Etymology: From Hebrew הבדלה (havdalá, “havdalah”, literally “separation”).
Senses: glosses: The Jewish ceremony, involving a candle, wine and spices, that concludes the Sabbath or other holy days.
Habdalah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Havdalah.
haemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːmɪk
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hemic.
haemogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnɪk
Etymology: From haemo- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hemogenic.
haemorrhagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ædʒɪk
Etymology: From haemorrhage + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hemorrhagic.
Derived terms: enterohaemorrhagic
fibrinohaemorrhagic
haemorrhagically
mucohaemorrhagic
posthaemorrhagic
hemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhi.mɪk/
rhymes: -iːmɪk
Forms: form: haemic
form: hæmic
Etymology: From αἷμα (haîma, “blood”) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to blood
glosses: Relating to heme
Derived terms: cardiohemic
monohemic
nonhemic
hemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhi.mɪk/
rhymes: -iːmɪk
Forms: form: haemic
form: hæmic
Senses: glosses: Somewhat decomposed.
raw_tags: of a peat
Related terms: fibric
sapric
hemogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: haemogenic
Etymology: From hemo- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the production of blood cells.
Synonyms: hemoplastic
Derived terms: nonhemogenic
hayloft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haylofts
form: hay loft
form: hay-loft
Etymology: From hay + loft.
Senses: examples: text: "I went into the stable first to see to the horse, and found him neighing and waiting for his hay, so I went up into the hay-loft for an armful[.]"
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 33:
glosses: The upper storey of a barn used for storing hay.
hay loft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hay lofts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hayloft.
hectoring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hectoring
form: most hectoring
Etymology: From hector + -ing.
Senses: glosses: That hectors; intimidating or domineering.
Derived terms: hectoringly
hectoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From hector + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hector
hectoring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hectorings
Etymology: From hector + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: their hectorings against an absent enemy, and their pusillanimity on his approach
ref: 1809, Diedrich Knickerbocker [pseudonym; Washington Irving], A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Inskeep & Bradford, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of one who hectors, or acts blusteringly.
homologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒdʒɪk
Senses: glosses: homological
homological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós, “same”) + λόγος (lógos, “word”), by surface analysis, homo- + logical.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: homologous
homologic
antonyms: heterologous
heterological
glosses: Having a shared evolutionary origin.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having to do with homology; using the methods of homological algebra.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: autological
antonyms: heterological
glosses: Of an adjective, describing itself.
Derived terms: cohomological
homological algebra
homologically
homophonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Etymology: From homophone + -ic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: homophonous
hypernyms: homonymic
homonymous
coordinate_terms: homographic
glosses: Having the same sound; being homophones.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: monophonic
antonyms: polyphonic
glosses: Having a single, accompanied, melodic line.
Derived terms: homophonically
nonhomophonic
leakage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːkɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: leakages
Etymology: From leak + -age.
Senses: glosses: An act of leaking, or something that leaks.
glosses: The amount lost due to a leak.
glosses: An undesirable flow of electric current through insulation.
glosses: Loss of retail stock, especially due to theft.
qualifier: sound recording
glosses: The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The loss of revenue generated by tourism to the economies of other countries.
Derived terms: antileakage
carbon leakage
cash leakage
endoleakage
inleakage
leakage current
microleakage
search leakage
Neosporin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Amanda took Rose to the bathroom, cleaned her wounds. They were minor. The ritual was a comfort to both of them: damp toilet paper and Neosporin, her child’s face close enough that she could smell her hot breath.
ref: 2020, Rumaan Alam, Leave the World Behind, Bloomsbury (2023), page 133:
glosses: An ointment used to prevent bacterial infection and speed healing.
great horned owl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great horned owls
Senses: glosses: Any of species Bubo virginianus of large owls, resident in North America, having tufts on its ears.
Huntaway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Huntaways
Senses: glosses: The New Zealand sheepdog.
pallet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpælɪt/
ipa: /ˈpælɪt/
ipa: /ˈpælət/
ipa: /ˈpælət/
rhymes: -ælɪt
homophone: palate
homophone: palette
homophone: pallette
Forms: form: pallets
Etymology: From Middle English paillet, from Anglo-Norman paillete (“bundle of straw”), from Old French paille (“straw, chaff”), from Latin palea (“chaff”).
Senses: examples: text: That good old blind bibber of Helicon I wot well, came a begging to one of the chiefe citties of Greece, & promiſed them vaſt corpulent volumes of immortallity, if they would beſtowe vpon him but a ſlender outbrothers annuity of muttõ & broth, and a pallet to ſleep on; and with deriſion they reiected him, [...]
ref: 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 3:
text: Weary, but too anxious for sleep, Beatrice gazed round the miserable little room: the walls, from which the plaster was mouldering—the cobwebs, that for years had been gathering on the rafters of the roof—the window, or rather opening, for window there was none, but a wooden shutter, which kept creaking backwards and forwards—the floor, discoloured with dirt—the wretched pallet—all struck her with a sick shudder of loathing and misery.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 222–223:
glosses: A straw bed.
glosses: A makeshift bed.
glosses: A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.
Derived terms: cargo pallet
GMA pallet
palletainer
palletisation
palletise
palletization
palletize
pallet jack
palletlike
pallet picking
pallet pump
pallet truck
repallet
pallet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpælɪt/
ipa: /ˈpælɪt/
ipa: /ˈpælət/
ipa: /ˈpælət/
rhymes: -ælɪt
homophone: palate
homophone: palette
homophone: pallette
Forms: form: pallets
form: palleting
form: palleted
form: palleted
Etymology: From Middle English paillet, from Anglo-Norman paillete (“bundle of straw”), from Old French paille (“straw, chaff”), from Latin palea (“chaff”).
Senses: glosses: To load or stack (goods) onto pallets.
Derived terms: unpalleted
pallet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpælɪt/
ipa: /ˈpælɪt/
ipa: /ˈpælət/
ipa: /ˈpælət/
rhymes: -ælɪt
homophone: palate
homophone: palette
homophone: pallette
Forms: form: pallets
form: palet
Etymology: Said to be from Middle English *palet, from Middle French *palet, from Middle French pal (“pale”), ultimately from Latin palla (“a strip of cloth”).
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A narrow vertical stripe, narrower than a pale. Diminutive of pale.
pallet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpælɪt/
ipa: /ˈpælɪt/
ipa: /ˈpælət/
ipa: /ˈpælət/
rhymes: -ælɪt
homophone: palate
homophone: palette
homophone: pallette
Forms: form: pallets
Senses: examples: text: The Old Dragon fled when the wonder he spied, / And cursed his own fruitless endeavor; / While the Painter call'd after his rage to deride, / Shook his pallet and brushes in triumph, and cried, / "I'll paint thee more ugly than ever!"
ref: 1798, Robert Southey, The Pious Painter:
text: For example, let a painter's pallet be suspended from the thumb-hole, as in the figure […]
ref: 1860, Chambers's Information for the People, volume 1, page 203:
qualifier: painting
glosses: Archaic form of palette.
glosses: A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.
glosses: A potter's wheel.
qualifier: gilding
glosses: An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
qualifier: gilding
glosses: A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
glosses: A board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
examples: text: the swing wheel […]is represented as being locked by one of its teeth on the nib or detent part of the right hand pallet, and the moment when the wheel is unlocked, the tooth at the left hand pallet is ready to press forward and raise up that pallet
ref: 1832, Thomas Reid, Treatise on Clock and Watch Making:
topics: hobbies
horology
lifestyle
glosses: One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, such as the Teredo.
pallet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpælɪt/
ipa: /ˈpælɪt/
ipa: /ˈpælət/
ipa: /ˈpælət/
rhymes: -ælɪt
homophone: palate
homophone: palette
homophone: pallette
Forms: form: pallets
Etymology: Learned borrowing from French palette.
Senses: glosses: A Parisian measure of blood let; a cup containing three ounces, formerly used by surgeons.
hound dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hound dogs
Senses: examples: text: You ain't nothin' but a hound dog
Cryin' all the time.
You ain't nothin' but a hound dog
Cryin' all the time.
Well, you ain't never caught a rabbit
And you ain't no friend of mine.
ref: 1956, “Hound Dog”, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller (revised by Elvis Presley) (lyrics), performed by Elvis Presley:
glosses: Any hound, especially the bloodhound.
glosses: A promiscuous man.
Snowdon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnəʊ.dən/
ipa: /ˈsnoʊ.dən/
rhymes: -əʊdən
Forms: form: Snowdons
Etymology: From Old English snāw (“snow”) + dūn (“hill”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
The highest mountain in Wales at 1,085 metres (3560 feet) high, in the county of Gwynedd (OS grid ref SH6054).
glosses: A placename:
A hill 495 metres high (1625 feet), on Dartmoor, South Hams district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX6668).
glosses: A placename:
A neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, named after James Snowdon.
glosses: An English habitational surname from toponymy [in turn from Old English] for someone who lived in any of these places.
Derived terms: Snowden
Snowdonia
Related terms: Snowdown
jacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒæks/
rhymes: -æks
Senses: glosses: plural of jack
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A pair of jacks.
examples: text: As soon as Barry swung the machete at his head, Vince snapped the PSF knife out of his pocket with his right hand and the jacks from his pocket with his left.
ref: 2011, R. Tyler, Heroin Guns:
glosses: Heroin tablets (from "jacks and jills" = pills)
Derived terms: cracker jacks
lazy jacks
jacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒæks/
rhymes: -æks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jakes: an outhouse or lavatory.
jacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒæks/
rhymes: -æks
Senses: examples: The rest of the day he heard the children playing kick-the-can, hide-and-seek, Over-Annie-Over, jacks, tops, mibs, and the sound of the little monsters in every shrub and shadow would not let him rest.
topics: games
glosses: A children's game involving picking up objects; knucklebones; jackstones.
plana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planum
side swimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side swimmers
Senses: glosses: An amphipod, Hyalella azteca, indigenous to the Everglades.
delouse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: delouses
form: delousing
form: deloused
form: deloused
Etymology: From de- + louse.
Senses: examples: text: A veterinarian could delouse your dog.
glosses: To remove lice from.
examples: text: During the Korean Conflict, American soldiers were deloused with DDT upon entering basic training.
glosses: To apply insecticides or insect repellents to, in order to be sure that no lice or other parasites are present.
examples: text: A deloused computer may still be considered no longer trustworthy.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To remove malicious software, such as viruses, trojans, spyware, or worms, from.
Derived terms: delouser
Related terms: demouse
Kansa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a Siouan ethnonym; related to Kansas and Arkansas, see the latter for more information.
Senses: glosses: A Native American people who used to inhabit parts of Kansas.
glosses: Their Dhegihan Siouan language.
Synonyms: Kaw
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Kansa terms
sweatsuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweatsuits
Etymology: From sweat + suit.
Senses: glosses: A two-piece garment worn during exercise.
Synonyms: word: sweats
planum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plana
Etymology: From Latin plānum (“level ground, plain”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: any flat surface
Derived terms: planectomy
planum temporale
sex drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sex drives
Senses: glosses: The tendency or instinct of animals to engage in sexual activity.
Synonyms: word: horniness
word: eros
word: libido
word: mojo
word: sex drive
Related terms: word: antaphrodisiac
word: aphrodisiac
word: libido
word: horniness
word: lust
word: glamour
word: venereal
word: act sexually
word: copulate
word: randy
word: sexually stimulate
Keisha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiːʃə/
rhymes: -iːʃə
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage, of African American usage, possibly a variant of Kezia.
Related terms: Lakeisha
Kaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: Kaws
Senses: examples: text: In the winter of 1866 the Cheyennes stole forty-two horses from a Kaw hunting party on the upper Arkansas, and following a murder of a Kaw herder at a buffalo camp near Fort Zarah a year later, the Kaws attacked a Cheyenne encampment[.]
ref: 2004, R. David Edmunds, The New Warriors: Native American Leaders Since 1900, →ISBN, page 20:
glosses: A member of a particular Native American tribe in Oklahoma and parts of Kansas.
Synonyms: Kansa
Derived terms: Kaw City
Lars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)z
Etymology: Borrowed from North Germanic, from Latin Laurentius.
Senses: examples: text: Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who stirred worldwide controversy in 2007 with drawings depicting the prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog, was killed in a car crash near the southern town of Markaryd on Sunday, police said.
ref: 2021 October 4, Reuters, “Lars Vilks, Swedish cartoonist who depicted Mohammed, killed in car crash”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from Latin occasionally given to Anglophones.
Lars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)z
Etymology: Formed within English as a plural form of lar, q.v.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lares, the classical Roman household deities
Related terms: lar
planum temporale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A flat upper surface on the temporal lobe of the brain, involved in hearing and language.
Synonyms: temporal plain
ashram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ashrams
form: āśram
Etymology: From Sanskrit आश्रम (āśrama).
Senses: examples: text: The entire ashram was excited.
text: In our broken culture those who have experienced the training of the yogic ashram are often woefully ignorant in the ways of the university, and vice versa.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 219:
glosses: A secluded religious hermitage inhabited by gurus, or the population of such a hermitage.
Derived terms: ashramite
Related terms: ashrama
temporal lobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: temporal lobes
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: One of the four major divisions of the cerebrum of the brain, located behind the temples.
Hudibrastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æstɪk
Forms: form: more Hudibrastic
form: most Hudibrastic
form: hudibrastic
Etymology: After Hudibras, a mock-heroic poem by Samuel Butler, + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The illustrations to Dr Syntax's Hudibrastic poem on Napoleon have some originality to recommend them as a starting-point for the student of Cruikshank as a delineator of historical subjects.
ref: 1908, Wilfrid Hugh Chesson, George Cruikshank, pages 71–72:
glosses: Of, or relating to a style of English verse that mocks heroic verse.
wikipedia: Hudibras
Samuel Butler
heroic verse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heroic verses
Senses: glosses: any of several forms of verse used in epic or dramatic poetry
Related terms: dactylic hexameter
iambic pentameter
alexandrine
Hudibrastic
frontal lobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frontal lobes
Senses: examples: text: The frontal lobe is the seat of the higher functions of the brain — reasoning, forethought, problem-solving, emotional control, and so on.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 61:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the four major divisions of the cerebrum of the brain, located behind the forehead.
Synonyms: word: frontal lobe
Hypernyms: word: lobe
Meronyms: word: prefrontal cortex
parietal lobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈɹaɪətəl ˌloʊb/
Forms: form: parietal lobes
Senses: examples: text: The parietal lobe manages sensory inputs like touch and temperature.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 61:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the four major divisions of the cerebrum of the brain.
occipital lobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑkˈsɪpɪtəl ˌloʊb/
Forms: form: occipital lobes
Senses: examples: text: The occipital lobe processes visual information.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 61:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the four major divisions of the cerebrum of the brain, located at the back of the head.
logistic curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logistic curves
Etymology: Calque of French courbe logistique, coined by Belgian mathematician Pierre François Verhulst in 1845. Verhulst did not explain his choice of the name logistique; see discussion at logistic.
Senses: topics: biology
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: S-curve
glosses: An S-shaped curve that models the growth of many ecosystems.
Related terms: logistic function
Adventist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Adventists
Etymology: From Advent + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who believes in the Second Advent (usually known as the Second Coming) of Jesus; an advocate of Adventism.
glosses: A member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Derived terms: first-day Adventist
Sabbatarian Adventist
Second Adventist
Seventh-day Adventist
Related terms: Advent
Adventism
Adventist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Adventist
form: most Adventist
Etymology: From Advent + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Relating to believers in the Second Advent of Jesus; relating to Adventism.
glosses: Relating to Seventh-day Adventism / the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Related terms: millenarian
Millerite
eudicots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eudicot
Adventists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Adventist
discussed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈskʌst/
ipa: /dɪˈskʊst/
ipa: /dɪˈskʌst/
ipa: /dɪˈskɐst/
rhymes: -ʌst
homophone: disgust
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of discuss
Derived terms: indiscussed
overdiscussed
prediscussed
underdiscussed
undiscussed
genetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more genetically
form: most genetically
Etymology: From genetic + -ally or genetical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Genetically modified crops.
text: John Smith is genetically related to Jane Doe.
text: Moreover, in the framework of the Turkish campaign against cousin marriage, the MZD is considered as dangerous as the FBD in terms of genetic risk. Nevertheless, many Alawi informants maintain that the MZD is genetically the least[…]
ref: 2015 January 1, Alison Shaw, Aviad E. Raz, Cousin Marriages: Between Tradition, Genetic Risk and Cultural Change, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 90:
text: As one of the largest producers of genetically modified (GM) seeds in the country, Monsanto has been vilified by activists who describe GM products as 'frankenfood.'
ref: 2016 April 18, Cristina Alesci, “Monsanto CEO frustrated over 'polarized' GMO debate”, in CNN Business:
glosses: In a manner relating to genes or genetics.
examples: text: Hildebrandt is certainly right in maintaining that all dream-images could be explained genetically, if we spent sufficient time and concentration on tracing their origin.
ref: 1999, Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, I.b
glosses: In terms of origin or development.
examples: text: German and Danish are genetically related.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: By being members of the same linguistic family.
Derived terms: abiogenetically
aetiopathogenetically
agamogenetically
allogenetically
anagenetically
androgenetically
anthropogenetically
antigenetically
autogenetically
biogenetically
catagenetically
chemogenetically
cladogenetically
cogenetically
cytogenetically
diagenetically
epigenetically
ethnogenetically
etiopathogenetically
gamogenetically
genetically engineered
genetically manipulated
genetically modified
gengineered
geogenetically
gynogenetically
histogenetically
hybridogenetically
immunogenetically
intragenetically
metagenetically
monogenetically
monophylogenetically
morphogenetically
neurogenetically
nongenetically
oncogenetically
ontogenetically
optogenetically
palingenetically
paragenetically
parthenogenetically
pathenogenetically
pathogenetically
pedogenetically
petrogenetically
pharmacogenetically
phylogenetically
phytogenetically
polygenetically
psychogenetically
sociogenetically
thermogenetically
transgenetically
xenogenetically
visits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: vĭzʹĭts
ipa: /ˈvɪzɪts/
Senses: examples: text: They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
ref: 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 9:
text: Prisoners of war shall at all times be afforded reasonable facilities for consulting and obtaining copies of their accounts, which may likewise be inspected by the representatives of the Protecting Powers at the time of visits to the camp.
ref: 1949 — Third Geneva Convention, Article IV, sect. 65
glosses: plural of visit
visits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: vĭzʹĭts
ipa: /ˈvɪzɪts/
Senses: examples: text: Please you, sir,
Do not omit the heavy offer of it:
It seldom visits sorrow; when it doth,
It is a comforter.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of visit
ifs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪfs/
rhymes: -ɪfs
Senses: glosses: plural of if
biz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪz/
rhymes: -ɪz
Forms: form: bizzes
Etymology: Clipping of business.
Senses: examples: text: Conrad Verner: So, you're alive, huh? I hear it goes like that in the biz. Why don't you sit back and watch how it's done? I've got some asses to kick.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Illium:
glosses: Business, especially showbusiness.
Derived terms: bizbabble
bizjet
bizness
bizspeak
bizzo
Related terms: showbiz
nanotube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanotubes
Etymology: From nano- + tube.
Senses: glosses: Shortening of carbon nanotube; A carbon molecule, in the shape of a tube, having a fullerene structure and a diameter of about 1 or 2 nanometers.
glosses: any nanotech tubular structure with a characteristic diameter measured in a few nanometres, such as titanium nanotubes
Synonyms: buckytube
carbon nanotube
Derived terms: fluoronanotube
Related terms: nanotechnology
steamy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstiː.mi/
rhymes: -iːmi
Forms: form: steamier
form: more steamy
form: steamiest
form: most steamy
Etymology: From steam + -y.
Senses: examples: text: My glasses fogged up when I walked into the steamy room.
glosses: Warm and humid; full of steam.
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of steam.
examples: text: Her latest novel was very steamy, but still managed to top the charts.
text: I'm having a steamy affair with an Armenian boxer.
text: There is “lots of action and a lot of steamy stuff, lots of hot dudes”, Maas told Kelly Clarkson this month.
ref: 2024 February 17, Anna Nicolaou, quoting Sarah J. Maas, “‘Romantasy’ writer who could save publishing”, in FT Weekend, Opinion, page 9:
glosses: Erotic.
Derived terms: steamily
steaminess
VS
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: V.S.
form: V.S
form: V. S.
Senses: coordinate_terms: VSOP
VVSOP
XO
glosses: Initialism of very special, or, very superior: a grade of premium cognac that has been aged in barrels for 2.5-4.5 years.
coordinate_terms: VVS
glosses: Abbreviation of very slightly (included): a degree of the inclusions in a diamond.
VS
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Forms: form: V.S.
form: V.S
form: V. S.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vs..
VS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: V.S.
form: V.S
form: V. S.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Visual Studio: an integrated development environment.
rephrase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪz
Forms: form: rephrases
form: rephrasing
form: rephrased
form: rephrased
Etymology: From re- + phrase.
Senses: examples: text: Make sure to rephrase your thesis in your conclusion.
glosses: To say or write something with different wording.
Synonyms: restate
reword
manyfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛnɪˌfəʊld/
homophone: manifold
Etymology: From many + -fold.
Senses: examples: text: The dramatic narrative of the close of Wolsey's life becomes manyfold more impressive from being told to the discrowned Queen Catherine.
ref: 1800, Henry Reed, Lectures on English History and Tragic Poetry, as Illustrated by Shakespeare:
text: my guess is that the number of NSLs being issued in the "war on terrorism" is probably manyfold what it was prior to 9-11.
ref: 2007 March 13, Coleen Rowley, “FBI NSLs Up "Manyfold"--A Clarification”, in Huffington Post, retrieved 26 Aug 2012:
glosses: By many times.
Synonyms: frequently
ofttimes
often
manyfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛnɪˌfəʊld/
homophone: manifold
Etymology: From many + -fold.
Senses: examples: text: I am right glad to hear of your manyfold successes
ref: 1772, Thomas Hearne, Anthony à Wood, William Huddesford, John Bale, John Leland, The Lives of Those Eminent Antiquaries John Leland, Thomas Hearne, and Anthony à Wood:
text: or even emcee a drawing jamboree amongst your manyfold adoring fans!
ref: 2009 December 21, James Gurney, quoting Oscar Baechler in comments, “Dianatopia”, in Gurney Journey, retrieved 26 Aug 2012:
glosses: many
Synonyms: multiple
numerous
manifold
rambling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæm.blɪŋ/
rhymes: -æmblɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ramble
rambling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæm.blɪŋ/
rhymes: -æmblɪŋ
Senses: glosses: Of a speech: meandering, long and digressing.
examples: text: Except that the house had an immensely large rambling loft at top, I made no other discoveries.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:
glosses: Confused and irregular; awkward.
examples: text: A long somewhat rambling branch, avoiding the places most likely to supply it with traffic, but not the centres of scenic interest, began at Letterkenny and reached the sea at Burtonport.
ref: 1949 November and December, K. Longbottom, “By Goods Train to Gweedore”, in Railway Magazine, page 353:
glosses: Winding irregularly in various directions.
Synonyms: sense: digressing
word: desultory
rambling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæm.blɪŋ/
rhymes: -æmblɪŋ
Forms: form: ramblings
Senses: examples: text: […] listening with great interest to Martha's ramblings about "The War."
ref: 1941, Harold Sinclair, Years of Illusion, page 145:
glosses: A long meandering talk with no specific topic or direction.
glosses: A gentle hike.
Derived terms: rambling rose
presidency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛzɪdənsi/
Forms: form: presidencies
form: presidence
Etymology: From Medieval Latin praesidentia. By surface analysis, president + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: After many years as a party leader, she finally ascended to the presidency.
text: The American people gave me the priceless privilege of serving them in the Presidency.
ref: 1963, Dwight Eisenhower, Mandate for Change 1953-1956, Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 4:
text: The presidencies of George W. Bush and Bill Clinton were marked by the resistance of both men to confessing mistakes; Bush's advisers long made it clear that he viewed such acknowledgments as akin to admitting weakness.
ref: 2009 February 5, Adam Nagourney, “The pros and cons of admitting a presidential error”, in The New York Times:
text: The Clintons, who once seemed banished to the wilds of Westchester County, are once again the most powerful family in Democratic politics, with talk of another Clinton presidency already rife in Washington.
ref: 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in The New York Times:
text: For some, the political damage proved modest. But for others, the investigations came to consume and even threaten their presidencies, at least for a time.
ref: 2023 January 13, Peter Baker, “Presidents and Their Prosecutors”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The office or role of president.
examples: text: Because of the president's lame duck status, the presidency was often hampered by congressional actions.
glosses: The bureaucratic organization and governmental initiatives devolving directly from the president.
examples: text: In France, a presidency lasts for five years.
text: Ernest was a historian specializing in the presidency of Herbert Hoover.
glosses: The time during which one is president; a president's term of office.
glosses: A supreme local council made up of three persons; (usually capitalized; also First Presidency) the highest authority.
glosses: One of the three original provinces of British India.
topics: Christianity
glosses: The role of ordained clergy in the celebration of the Eucharist in some denominations.
Synonyms: presidenthood
presidentship
Derived terms: vice-presidency
lifesaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪfˌseɪvə/
ipa: /ˈlaɪfˌseɪvəɹ/
Forms: form: lifesavers
form: life-saver
form: life saver
Etymology: From life + saver.
Senses: examples: text: My dad loves his job as a surf lifesaver.
text: Paramedics are not just ordinary workers, but lifesavers with a very important job.
text: Dexamethasone hailed as lifesaver for up to a million Covid patients worldwide [title]
ref: 2021 March 23, Natalie Grover, Denis Campbell, “Dexamethasone hailed as lifesaver for up to a million Covid patients worldwide”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Ms Rybicki began filming just as a second IRB drove out to the rogue boat, collecting the first lifesaver into the boat en route.
ref: 2023 October 2, Emily Bissland, “Warrnambool beach evacuated as surf lifesaver is 'catapulted' from rogue inflatable rescue boat”, in Australian Broadcasting Corporation:
glosses: Someone or something that saves lives.
examples: text: Thank you so much for fixing my car; you're a real lifesaver!
text: This shop is a lifesaver on a hot day when you're craving a cold drink.
text: Both Netflix and Amazon Prime Video have been lifesavers during the pandemic. Having both is ideal.
ref: 2021 August 26, Rachel Obordo, “‘Netflix is a lifesaver!’ The over-65s embracing the streaming boom”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: boon
godsend
glosses: Someone or something that is very useful or helpful.
Synonyms: sense: someone saving lives
word: lifeguard
sense: someone saving lives
word: rescuer
sense: something saving lives
word: life buoy
sense: something saving lives
word: life preserver
sense: something saving lives
word: life ring
doubles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double
doubles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Seeing as we've got four people, let's play doubles.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a game between pairs of players
examples: text: A quarter peal of plain bob doubles was rung.
topics: campanology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: bell changes rung on five bells
glosses: A sandwich of Trinidad and Tobago, made with two bara (flat fried bread) filled with curried chickpeas.
Derived terms: American doubles
Australian doubles
Canadian doubles
doubles net
mixed doubles
doubles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The population doubles every ten minutes.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of double
upfront
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌpˈfɹʌnt/
rhymes: -ʌnt
Forms: form: more upfront
form: most upfront
form: up-front
form: up front
Senses: glosses: Honest, frank and straightforward.
examples: text: Appleby is an upfront homosexual, a devout Roman Catholic and a practitioner of the Black Arts.
ref: 1979 April 14, Mitzel, “A Massachusetts Morality Play”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
glosses: open, admitted, out
examples: text: Warning online ticket retailers to be "up front" about fees, the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has written to seven of the 19 third-party ticket retailers (TPRs) which did not include their fees in the upfront price. Threatening to take action about hidden charges (known as 'drip pricing'), where an initial price is shown but additional elements are revealed later in the sales process, the ORR reviewed the prices of 19 TPRs.
ref: 2023 December 27, Mel Holley, “Network News: Regulator to crack down on hidden ticket charges”, in RAIL, number 999, page 6:
glosses: In a forward, leading or frontward position.
glosses: Paid in advance.
raw_tags: of money
upfront
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌpˈfɹʌnt/
rhymes: -ʌnt
Forms: form: up-front
form: up front
Senses: examples: text: My commissioners pay half of the price upfront and the other half after they receive the finished product.
glosses: beforehand
examples: text: He's a poor defender, so we always play him upfront.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: As an attacker.
upfront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌpˈfɹʌnt/
rhymes: -ʌnt
Forms: form: upfronts
form: up-front
form: up front
Senses: examples: text: Virginia Heffernan, Times TV critic, reports from this week's TV upfronts, where the networks debut their new schedules.
ref: 2007 May 17, Bill Carter, “As the Networks Order New Shows, Fox Moves to Consolidate Its Gains”, in New York Times:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A meeting of network executives with the press and major advertisers, signaling the start of advertising sales for a new season
upfront
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌpˈfɹʌnt/
rhymes: -ʌnt
Forms: form: upfronts
form: upfronting
form: upfronted
form: upfronted
form: up-front
form: up front
Senses: examples: text: What our analysis has, hopefully, upfronted is the importance to resuscitate the suppressed and silenced voices so as to show the powerful mechanisms of institutional "cases".
ref: 1997, Christopher Hall et al., “Silent and silenced voices”, in Adam Jaworski, editor, Silence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, →ISBN, page 204:
glosses: To bring to the fore; to place up front for consideration
nonstop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɒnˈstɒp/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˌnɑnˈstɑp/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˌnɒnˈstɒp/
ipa: /ˌnɔnˈstɔp/
ipa: /ˌnɒnˈstɒp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: non-stop
Etymology: From non- + stop.
Senses: examples: text: There's a nonstop flight to Mauritius, but I'm not sitting on the same plane for thirteen hours.
text: Many earnest consumers on the Right feel so legitimately embattled by the nonstop streaming feed of hate speech and psyoppery directed at them that they think they have no choice but to reconfigure their artistic sensibilities accordingly.
ref: 2024 June 18, Spencer Klavan, “A Matter of Taste”, in The American Mind:
glosses: Without stopping; without interruption or break.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: missense
nonsense
glosses: Describing a point mutation within a stop codon that causes the continued translation of an mRNA strand.
Derived terms: non-stop decay
nonstop
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɒnˈstɒp/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˌnɑnˈstɑp/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˌnɒnˈstɒp/
ipa: /ˌnɔnˈstɔp/
ipa: /ˌnɒnˈstɒp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: non-stop
Etymology: From non- + stop.
Senses: examples: text: He worked nonstop for fourteen hours yesterday, just so he could get today off.
synonyms: word: ceaselessly
word: endlessly
word: incessantly
word: ceaselessly
word: consecutively
word: constantly
word: continually
word: continuously
word: endlessly
word: eternally
word: everlastingly
word: extendedly
word: incessantly
word: infinitely
word: neverendingly
word: nonstop
word: ongoingly
word: perpetually
word: persistently
word: relentlessly
word: steadily
word: successively
word: unbrokenly
word: unceasingly
word: unendingly
word: unintermittedly
word: uninterruptedly
word: unrelentingly
word: unrelievedly
word: unremittingly
word: unstoppingly
glosses: Without stopping; without interruption or break