cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
kickable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kickable
form: most kickable
Etymology: From kick + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The home side were showing adventure, running from deep in their own half and booting a kickable penalty to touch.
text: I look at her as the very gizzard of a trifle, […] fitter to be kickt, if ſhee vvere of a kickable ſubſtance, than either honoured or humoured.
ref: 1647, Theodore de la Guard [pseudonym; Nathaniel Ward], The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America. […], London: […] J[ohn] D[ever] & R[obert] I[bbitson] for Stephen Bowtell, […], →OCLC, pages 24–25:
text: Kickable people are of various descriptions. Amongst these are your kickable subjects prima facie;—those whose provocatives are visible and external, whose incentives to you to kick them lie chiefly in manner and bearing.
ref: 1842, Alexander Campbell, “Kickable People”, in Sketches of Life and Character, page 10:
text: All sorts of kickable objects were used from ancient times until today's inflated ball, with a leather casing between 27 and 28 inches in circumference, was adopted.
ref: 1950 October 24, John W. Wood, “The World's favorite Sport”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 94, number 4, Hearst Magazines, →ISSN, page 137:
text: The weekend inventor has five U.S. patents and three more pending for inspirations such as a kickable Frisbee, a clothes-ironing mitt and a leak-proof shower curtain.
ref: 1997, “By The Seat Of His Pants”, in Ski, volume 61, number 7, →ISSN, page 22:
glosses: Capable or deserving of being kicked.
examples: text: Insolence of office is pre-eminently kickable. Who ever went into a public office, and was treated, as he is very apt to be, with the most offensive hauteur by some saucy, well-paid official, without feeling the desire to kick him rising strong within him? […] Petty tyranny is also eminently kickable.
ref: 1842, Alexander Campbell, “Kickable People”, in Sketches of Life and Character, page 11:
text: The first serious outbreak and renewal of hostilites ^([sic]) occurred when Dolly—who was now out of the doctor's hands—one morning sent his footman off at a moment's notice, for gross impertinence of the severest kickable kind.
ref: 1860, Augustus Mayhew, “The Finest Girl in Bloomsbury. A Tale of Ambitious Love. [serial novel, Chapter IX: Mrs. Ickle's Triumph]”, in The Welcome Guest, London: Houlston and Wright, page 464:
text: What if the very things you like in me now—you'd hate sometime. What if the things I think are strong and stunning in you now, I'd think were pig-headed and kickable after a while?
ref: 1923, Rachel Crothers, “Act III”, in Mary the Third[:] A Comedy in Prologue and Three Acts:
qualifier: describing a behaviour or trait
glosses: Incurring kicking.
Derived terms: unkickable
thermochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermo- + chemistry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
glosses: The study of the thermodynamics of chemical reactions.
Brendan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brandon
form: Brenden
form: Brendon
form: Brennan
Etymology: Anglicized form of the name of Irish saints, Irish Bréanainn (via Latin Brendanus), from Old Irish Brénainn, from Old Welsh breenhin (“prince, king”), ultimately from Proto-Celtic *brigantīnos (“(someone) preeminent, outstanding”), a diminutive of *brigantī (“high, exalted”). Doublet of Brian.
Senses: examples: text: That’s what prompted new FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to send a “letter of inquiry” to CBS, asking the network to hand over the unedited tapes and transcript.
ref: 2025 February 3, Brian Stelter, “The FCC’s battle with CBS over its Harris interview is raising red flags”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from Irish.
thermocouple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermocouples
Etymology: From thermo- + couple.
Senses: glosses: A transducer consisting of two different metals welded together at each end; a voltage is produced that is proportional to the difference in temperature between the two junctions (one of which is normally held at a known temperature)
Derived terms: thermocoupled
thermocoupling
thermomagnetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thermo- + magnetic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of or pertaining to any of several phenomena occurring when an electrical conductor or semiconductor is placed in a temperature gradient and a magnetic field.
Related terms: Ettingshausen-Nernst effect
Righi-Leduc effect
thermoregulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermo- + regulation.
Senses: examples: text: . “If you’re allocating all of the blood and all the glucose to parts of your brain that are focused on thermoregulation, it seems like it’s very plausible that you just wouldn’t have enough left for some of these kind of higher cognitive functions,” Dr. Meidenbauer said.
ref: 2024 June 19, Dana G. Smith, quoting Kimberly Meidenbauer, “How Heat Affects the Brain”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The maintenance of a constant internal temperature of an organism independent of the temperature of the environment.
Related terms: endothermy
exothermy
thermotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermotherapies
Etymology: From thermo- + therapy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The use of heat to treat disease
thorianite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thorianites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A radioactive mineral containing thorium dioxide (ThO₂) plus oxides of uranium, lanthanum, cerium neodymium and praseodymium in smaller quantities.
didymium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δίδυμος (dídumos, “twin”) + -ium.
Senses: glosses: A mixture of praseodymium and neodymium once thought to be an element (symbol Di).
thorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thorites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A radioactive mineral, composed mostly of thorium silicate (ThSiO₄), along with silicates of uranium and the rare earths.
bevelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beveled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bevel
bevelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: beveled
Senses: glosses: Having a bevel, especially at an edge
Derived terms: unbevelled
bevelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bevel
bevelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bevellings
Senses: glosses: A bevel, a bevelled facet.
fictions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fiction
resinify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛˈzɪnəfaɪ/
Forms: form: resinifies
form: resinifying
form: resinified
form: resinified
Etymology: From resin + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: Jon resinified the chemical adhesive by mixing its two components.
glosses: To convert into a resin.
examples: text: Exposed to the elements, over time the oil had resinified.
glosses: To become resinous.
loonie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːni/
homophone: loony
homophone: looney
homophone: luny
Forms: form: loonies
Etymology: From loon + -ie from the depiction of a loon on the reverse (tail-side) of the Canadian one-dollar coin.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: The Canadian dollar coin in common circulation since 1987.
examples: text: The loonie continued to rise against the greenback today.
glosses: The dollar as the Canadian unit of currency.
glosses: Alternative form of loony.
Derived terms: doubloon
doubloonie
toonie
twonie
twoonie
expressionistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more expressionistic
form: most expressionistic
Etymology: From expressionist + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Expressionist.
Derived terms: expressionistically
neo-expressionistic
extempore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈstɛmpəɹi/
ipa: /ɪkˈstɛmpəɹi/
Forms: form: more extempore
form: most extempore
form: ex tempore
Etymology: From Latin ex (“immediately after”) + tempore, ablative singular of tempus (“time", "opportunity", "occasion”).
Senses: glosses: Carried out with no preparation; impromptu.
extempore
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈstɛmpəɹi/
ipa: /ɪkˈstɛmpəɹi/
Forms: form: more extempore
form: most extempore
form: ex tempore
Etymology: From Latin ex (“immediately after”) + tempore, ablative singular of tempus (“time", "opportunity", "occasion”).
Senses: glosses: Without preparation; extemporaneously.
extempore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈstɛmpəɹi/
ipa: /ɪkˈstɛmpəɹi/
Forms: form: extempores
form: ex tempore
Etymology: From Latin ex (“immediately after”) + tempore, ablative singular of tempus (“time", "opportunity", "occasion”).
Senses: glosses: Something improvised.
extendable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɛkˈstɛndəbl̩/
Forms: form: more extendable
form: most extendable
form: extendible
Etymology: From extend + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The extendable boom of the arm is designed to reach out 10 feet and have a lateral range of 120 degrees.
ref: 1976 July 24, John Noble Wilford, “SCIENTISTS FEEL THEY CAN FIX ARM ON VIKING LANDER”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Capable of being extended.
Derived terms: hyperextendable
nonextendable
unextendable
extendible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extend + -ible.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Liable to be taken by a writ of extent.
glosses: Alternative spelling of extendable.
Derived terms: inextendible
nonextendible
unextendible
externalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: externalizes
form: externalizing
form: externalized
form: externalized
Etymology: From external + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make something external or objective
glosses: To represent something abstract or intangible as material; to embody
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: To attribute emotions etc to external circumstances; to project
examples: text: Offering high-quality software as open-source externalizes benefits to a large community, but also externalizes much of the cost of testing and further development.
text: Operating a low-cost, high-pollution manufacturing process externalizes costs in the form of adverse human health consequences and ecosystem effects.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: To direct to others, as costs or benefits.
Derived terms: externalizable
externalization
externalizer
unexternalized
externals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of external
extinguisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈstɪŋɡwɪʃə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɛkˈstɪŋɡwɪʃə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: extinguishers
Etymology: From extinguish + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, extinguishes something.
A fire extinguisher.
glosses: One who, or that which, extinguishes something.
A small hollow conical instrument for putting out a candle.
Synonyms: sense: device for putting out a candle
word: extincteur
TEM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TEMs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of transmission electron microscope.
glosses: Initialism of transmission electron microscopy.
section 8
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: section 8s
Senses: glosses: Federally subsidized housing for low-income families and individuals, formally known as the Housing Choice Voucher Program.
examples: text: By the time got out of the service I was tuly ^([sic]) a broken man. The constant threat of the stockade or a section eight (undesireable discharge for being gay) drove me to the verge of insanity.
ref: 1983 December 31, James L. Zipper, “Happy To Be Me”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 24, page 13:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Discharge from the United States military for reason of being mentally unfit for service.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Discharge from the United States military for reason of being mentally unfit for service.
A person so discharged.
Related terms: word: projects
acies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin aciēs (“edge, sharpness”).
Senses: examples: 1658: And therefore providence hath arched and paved the great house of the world, with colours of mediocrity, that is, blew and green, above and below the sight, moderately terminating the acies of the eye. — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 204)
glosses: The full attention of one's sight, hearing or other senses, as directed towards a particular object.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The edge or angle of certain stems.
cul de sac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cul de sacs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cul-de-sac.
kee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiː/
rhymes: -iː
Senses: examples: text: the western lass that tends the kee
ref: 1720, John Gay, “Tuesday”, in Poems on Several Occasions:
glosses: Alternative form of kye (“cow”).
retouched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retouch
retouch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rē-tŭchʹ
ipa: /ɹɪˈtʌtʃ/
rhymes: -ʌtʃ
enpr: rēʹ-tŭch
ipa: /ˈɹiːtʌtʃ/
Forms: form: retouches
form: retouching
form: retouched
form: retouched
Etymology: From French retoucher.
Senses: examples: text: For time ſhall with his ready pencil ſtand;
Retouch your figures with his ripening hand;
Mellow your colors, and imbrown the teint;
Add every grace, which time alone can grant;
To future ages ſhall your fame convey,
And give more beauties than he takes away.
ref: a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “Epistle the Fourteenth. To Sir Godfrey Kneller, Principal Painter to His Majesty.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume II, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 201:
glosses: To improve something (especially a photograph), by adding or correcting details, or by removing flaws.
glosses: To colour the roots of hair to match hair previously coloured.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: To modify a flint tool by making secondary flaking along the cutting edge.
Derived terms: retouching frame
retouch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rē-tŭchʹ
ipa: /ɹɪˈtʌtʃ/
rhymes: -ʌtʃ
enpr: rēʹ-tŭch
ipa: /ˈɹiːtʌtʃ/
Forms: form: retouches
Etymology: From French retoucher.
Senses: glosses: The act of retouching.
end-scrapers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of end-scraper
end-scraper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: end-scrapers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of endscraper.
endscraper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endscrapers
Etymology: From end + scraper.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
synonyms: grattoir
glosses: A small, rounded flint tool used to scrape hides; sometimes fitted to a bone handle.
geometrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A design made from geometric figures
glosses: The geometric characteristics of something
Epipaleolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epi- + Paleolithic.
Senses: glosses: Mesolithic
Epipaleolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From epi- + Paleolithic.
Senses: glosses: The Mesolithic period
aceramic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + ceramic.
Senses: examples: text: At Çatal Hüyük we can actually study the transition from an aceramic Neolithic with baskets and wooden vessels to a ceramic Neolithic with the first pottery.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, quoting James Mellaart, Çatal Hüyük, 1967, p. 22, quoted in The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 138:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
qualifier: period; or site; period; or site
glosses: Having no pottery or other ceramicware items.
raw_tags: of a culture
Synonyms: pre-pottery
inorganic carbon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Carbon that is not present as organic compounds; principally carbonate minerals
bifacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəl
Etymology: From bi- + facial.
Senses: glosses: Having two faces or opposing surfaces.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having two sharp cutting edges.
raw_tags: of a flint tool
Derived terms: bifacial core
bifacially
isobifacial
Related terms: biface
erosional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From erosion + -al.
Senses: examples: text: When the island finally reaches close to sea-level there will no longer be sufficient elevation to produce the rainfall that drives the erosional machine.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 58:
glosses: Pertaining to erosion.
Derived terms: erosionally
erosional unconformity
nonerosional
interstadial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + stadial.
Senses: examples: text: the interstadial transmission of disease
glosses: Between developmental stages.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a temporary period of thaw in the middle of an ice age.
Derived terms: interstadially
interstadial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interstadials
Etymology: From inter- + stadial.
Senses: glosses: Such a period.
Related terms: interglacial
foliates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of foliate
foliates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foliate
foliated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a structure of thin layers.
raw_tags: of a rock
topics: architecture
glosses: Decorated with foliage.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Having notes added above or below, as in a plain-song melody.
Derived terms: quinquefoliated
unfoliated
foliated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of foliate
cherimoya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɛɹɪˈmɔɪ.ə/
ipa: /t͡ʃeɹɪˈmoɪ.ə/
Forms: form: cherimoyas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish chirimoya, from Quechua chirimuya.
Senses: glosses: A subtropical tree, of species Annona cherimola, native to mountainous areas of South America.
examples: text: To some it tastes like a pina colada without rum; to others, a cross between a strawberry and a pineapple. For natives of the Caribbean the cherimoya is a fruit that can be plucked from backyard trees for nothing.
ref: 1985 February 2, Marian Burros, “Cherimoya: Exotic and costly treat from west”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2021, page 44:
text: Mark Twain called the cherimoya "deliciousness itself," though others have described this heart-shaped, fist-sized fruit with pale-green leathery skin as "reptilian," like a "fossil artichoke" or "the finial for a giant four-poster bed."
ref: 1994 January 12, David Karp, “Once considered exotic, some fruits become family”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Oct 2021:
synonyms: custard apple
Jamaican apple
glosses: A conical fruit with white flesh from that tree.
instanter
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈstæntɚ/
ipa: /ɪnˈstæntə/
ipa: /ɪnˈstantə/
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Medieval Latin īnstanter (“immediately”), originally “vehemently” in Classical Latin.
Senses: examples: text: "They're another reason why I've got to get my girl and start instanter.
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 8:
text: They lifted him onto the deck where he lay in his wet seersucker suit and his lemoncolored socks, leering walleyed up at the workers with the hook in his face like some gross water homunculus taken in trolling that the light of God's day had stricken dead instanter.
ref: 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 9:
text: I cleared my throat & bade all good morning, at which our amicable captain swore, 'You can better my morning, by b—ing off, instanter!'
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: immediately; instantly; without delay.
wikipedia: Classical Latin
Related terms: instant
this instant
tanged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæŋd/
rhymes: -æŋd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tang
tanged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæŋd/
rhymes: -æŋd
Forms: form: more tanged
form: most tanged
Senses: examples: text: Sandars identifies two varieties, tanged and tangless. The blades with tangs or short “necks,” where the handles are attached with two rivets, seem to be more common in LM III Crete.
ref: 2011, Jeffrey S. Soles, Costis Davaras, Mochlos IIC: Period IV, page 49:
glosses: Having a tang (projecting part of an object for securing it).
pedunculated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pedunculated
form: most pedunculated
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pedunculate.
Derived terms: nonpedunculated
semipedunculated
subpedunculated
pedunculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pedunculate
form: most pedunculate
Etymology: From Late Latin pedunculātus.
Senses: examples: text: a pedunculate flower
text: A lobster has a pedunculate eye.
glosses: Having a peduncle or stalk
Derived terms: pedunculately
pedunculate oak
pedunculation
subpedunculate
pedunculate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedunculates
Etymology: From Late Latin pedunculātus.
Senses: glosses: Such a flower
redcedar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redcedars
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of red cedar.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Thuja plicata
word: western redcedar
interglacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəl
Etymology: From inter- + glacial.
Senses: examples: text: Palaeoenvironmental evidence from northwest Europe indicates that the oligocratic phase of the interglacial cycle (Fig. 3.1) had begun by ca. 5K years BP.
ref: 2014, Antoinette Mannion, Global Environmental Change, page 71:
glosses: Occurring between glaciations (colloquially known as ice ages).
Derived terms: interglacially
interglacial optimum
interglacial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəl
Forms: form: interglacials
Etymology: From inter- + glacial.
Senses: examples: text: The climatic recession which produced Britain's last glaciers came rapidly to an end about 10,000 bp, as temperatures rose during the end of the protocratic phase of the present interglacial.
ref: 2019, Peter Vincent, The Biogeography of the British Isles: An Introduction, page 209:
glosses: The relatively warm period between glacial periods.
Related terms: interstadial
reevaluation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: reevaluations
form: re-evaluation
form: reëvaluation
Etymology: From re- + evaluation.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent evaluation or rating
sleep schedule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleep schedules
Senses: glosses: A pattern of sleeping and waking; especially a regular pattern of sleeping and waking designed to promote health.
whitecedar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whitecedars
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of white cedar.
Acheulean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈ(t)ʃuːlɪən/
rhymes: -uːliən
Forms: form: Acheulian
Etymology: From French acheuléen, from Saint-Acheul, a suburb of Amiens where the first tools from this period were found.
Senses: examples: text: Assuming that language ability extends back to the hominids, we see a slow process of cultural development over millions of years, and then in the Acheulean period of Homo erectus, about three hundred thousand years ago, we find the first engraved tool.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 95:
text: When early modern humans – the ones who would eventually become us – started to move out of Africa something over a hundred thousand years ago, Acheulean tools were the technology of choice.
ref: 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, published 2003, page 402:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a lower Paleolithic period characterized by the presence of flaked bifacial hand axes.
Acheulean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈ(t)ʃuːlɪən/
rhymes: -uːliən
Forms: form: Acheulian
Etymology: From French acheuléen, from Saint-Acheul, a suburb of Amiens where the first tools from this period were found.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A lower Paleolithic period characterized by the presence of flaked bifacial hand axes.
pluvial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplu.vi.əl/
ipa: /ˈpluː.vi.əl/
Forms: form: more pluvial
form: most pluvial
Etymology: Borrowed from French pluvial, from Middle French pluvial, borrowed from Latin pluviālis (“pertaining to rain”).
Senses: synonyms: ombro-
pluvio-
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or produced by rain.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Occurring through the action of rain.
Derived terms: antipluvial
Carnian pluvial episode
interpluvial
intrapluvial
nonpluvial
pluvial lake
Related terms: pluvious
pluvial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplu.vi.əl/
ipa: /ˈpluː.vi.əl/
Forms: form: pluvials
Etymology: Borrowed from French pluvial, from Middle French pluvial, borrowed from Latin pluviālis (“pertaining to rain”).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: a rainy period
Cyrenaica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /saɪɹəˈneɪ.ɪkə/
Forms: form: Cirenaica
form: Kyrenaika
Etymology: From Latin Cȳrenaica, from Ancient Greek Κῡρηναϊκή (Kūrēnaïkḗ), from Κῡρηνᾰῐ̈κός (Kūrēnăĭ̈kós, “Cyrenean, adj.”) + -ή (-ḗ, “-a: forming feminine nouns”), from Κῡρηναῖος (Kūrēnaîos, “Cyrenean, n.”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic: forming adjectives”), from Κυρήνη (Kurḗnē, “Cyrene”) + -ιος (-ios, “-y: forming demonyms”). Equivalent to Cyrenaic + -a.
Senses: synonyms: Barqa
glosses: A geographic region, an and former province of northeastern Libya; in modern usage, extended to the entire eastern portion of Libya.
Derived terms: Cyrenaican
Related terms: Cyrenaic
Cyrenian
white cedar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white cedars
Senses: glosses: In family Cupressaceae (gymnosperms)
An Atlantic white cypress, Chamaecyparis thyoides.
glosses: In family Cupressaceae (gymnosperms)
An evergreen coniferous tree, of species (Thuja occidentalis, native to the northeastern US and southeastern Canada.
glosses: In family Cupressaceae (gymnosperms)
A Mexican white cedar (Cupressus lusitanica)
glosses: Among angiosperms:
A chinaberry shrub (Melia azedarach), in family Meliaceae.
glosses: Among angiosperms:
A tree of species Tabebuia heterophylla, of the Caribbean and South America, in family Bignoniaceae.
Synonyms: sense: Atlantic white cypress
word: Atlantic white cedar
sense: Thuja occidentalis
word: American arborvitae
sense: Thuja occidentalis
word: arborvitae
sense: Thuja occidentalis
word: eastern arborvitae
sense: Thuja occidentalis
word: eastern whitecedar
sense: Thuja occidentalis
word: northern whitecedar
sense: Thuja occidentalis
word: swamp-cedar
word: chinaberry
word: Persian lilac
word: Cape lilac
word: bead tree
slopewash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slopewashes
form: slope wash
Etymology: From slope + wash.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The transportation of rock and soil down a slope by rain; the material so transported
Related terms: sheet erosion
crown green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crown greens
Senses: glosses: The playing area used in crown green bowls; normally about 40 yards square that rises to a "crown" in the middle about 1 foot above the edges
Derived terms: crown green bowls
Related terms: bowling green
epimerization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epimerizations
Etymology: From epimer + -ization.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The process of forming an epimer by changing one asymmetric centre in a compound that has more than one
asymmetric centre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asymmetric centres
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An atom having a spatial arrangement of ligands which is not superposable on its mirror image
Synonyms: centre of asymmetry
chirality centre
nut-grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nut-grasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nutgrass.
nutgrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nutgrasses
form: nut grass
form: nut-grass
Etymology: From nut + grass.
Senses: glosses: Any perennial sedge of species Cyperus esculentus or Cyperus rotundus, that has small edible nutlike tubers.
green manure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green manures
Senses: examples: text: There are, broadly speaking, two classes of green manures, viz.:—Leguminous and others.
ref: 1901 June 21, Alex Pardy, “Green Manuring”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 6, page 242:
glosses: Any fairly green (fresh and wet) plant matter that is ploughed into the soil to improve its fertility; especially, a cover crop that is plowed in.
Derived terms: green manuring
club-rush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: club-rushes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of club rush.
green wax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green waxes
form: greenwax
Etymology: From Middle English grene wax.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An estreat from the Exchequer, delivered to a sheriff, sealed upon green wax, in 15th-century England.
Derived terms: green wax money
process of green wax
greenweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greenweeds
Etymology: From green + weed.
Senses: glosses: Any of several plants, of the genus Genista, related to broom
Derived terms: taxonomic: Genista tinctoria
word: dyer's greenweed
taxonomic: Genista pilosa
word: hairy greenweed
calendric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From calendar + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a calendar.
Synonyms: calendrical
sengreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sengreens
form: singreen
form: simgreen
form: sinna-green
form: sungreen
form: sigrim
form: sil-green
form: sel-green
form: silgreen
form: sillgreen
Etymology: From Middle English singrene, from Old English singrēne (“evergreen; houseleek”), from Proto-West Germanic *singrōnijā (“evergreen, houseleek”), from Proto-Germanic *singrōniz (literally “ever-green”). Cognate with Dutch zenegroen, German Singrün.
Senses: glosses: The houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum), a common plant of Europe.
Derived terms: water sengreen
tenuousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tenuous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the quality of being tenuous
outwash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outwashes
Etymology: From out- + wash. Compare Middle English outwashen (“to wash out; rinse”).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The sediment (mostly sand and gravel) deposited by water flowing from a melting glacier
unidentifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unidentifiable
form: most unidentifiable
Etymology: From un- + identifiable.
Senses: glosses: Difficult, if not impossible, to identify or name
presolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + solar.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: older than the solar system
Derived terms: presolar grain
collaborator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈlæbəɹeɪtɚ/
ipa: /kəˈlæbəɹeɪtə/
Forms: form: collaborators
form: collaborateur
Etymology: From French collaborateur.
Senses: synonyms: team player
glosses: A person who works with others towards a common goal.
synonyms: turncoat
collaborationist
glosses: A person who cooperates traitorously with an enemy.
Derived terms: collaboratress
telecollaborator
Related terms: collaborate
collaboration
toehold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtəʊhəʊld/
Forms: form: toeholds
form: toe-hold
form: toe hold
Etymology: From toe + hold.
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A foothold small enough to support just the toe.
examples: text: Were Herat to fall to the Persians, this would give the Russians a crucial and dangerous toe-hold in western Afghanistan.
ref: 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 151:
text: The tiny old houses and flats of this once impoverished quarter had mostly been refurbished into toeholds for young Atlantans from all around the Anglosphere, poor in equity but rich in expectations, who had come to the great city to incubate their careers.
ref: 1995, Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age […] , New York: Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, page 373:
text: One in three "adult-kids" who have not left the parental nest say they are still living at home because they cannot afford to get a toehold on the property ladder by buying or renting.
ref: 2009 December 8, Alan Travis, “More young adults in 20s and 30s living with parents than in past 20 years”, in The Guardian:
text: Strachey argued that the Raj was bad for Britain and the British. In Inglorious Empire, Shashi Tharoor argues, with equal passion, that it was much worse for India and the Indians. In 1700, when the British were mere traders clinging on to a few coastal toeholds, the Emperor Aurangzeb ruled over a country that accounted for a quarter of the world’s economy.
ref: 2017 September 7, Ferdinand Mount, “Umbrageousness”, in London Review of Books:
glosses: Any small advantage which allows one to make significant progress; a slight footing or foothold.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A hold in which the aggressor bends back the opponent's foot.
Related terms: foothold
get a load of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets a load of
form: getting a load of
form: got a load of
form: got a load of
form: gotten a load of
Senses: examples: text: One night Bernette happened to get a load of Peggy doing a rumba with Jackie.
ref: 1939 September 25, “Heeltalk”, in Time:
text: Get a load of the "eyesome femininity" at the International Casino, as the Times put it.
ref: 2004 June 13, David W. Dunlap, “The Crossroads of the Crossroads”, in New York Times, page CY3:
glosses: To experience someone or something, especially by looking or listening.
Synonyms: behold
cop a load of
Related terms: get you
trencher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛnt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛntʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: trenchers
Etymology: From Middle English trenchour, from Anglo-Norman trenchour and Old Northern French trencheor (French tranchoir), from trenchier (“to cut, to carve”). See trench (verb).
Senses: examples: text: Mrs Partridge, upon this, immediately fell into a fury, and discharged the trencher on which she was eating, at the head of poor Jenny […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A plate on which food is served or cut.
glosses: Someone who trenches; especially, one who cuts or digs ditches.
examples: text: The milling action of the bucket line enables the trencher to cut through difficult materials, such as stone rubble and brick filling, and to leave a good trench with clean side walls.
ref: 1956 January, “New Permanent Way Equipment on British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 57:
coordinate_terms: word: entrenching tool
english: hand tool
translation: hand tool
glosses: A machine for digging trenches.
Derived terms: fruit-trencher
lick-trencher
spin the trencher
trencher cap
trencher-fed
trencher fly
trencher friend
trencher-man
trencherman
trencher mate
for instance
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: f'rinstance
form: frinstance
form: fer instance
form: ferinstance
form: fer-instance
Senses: examples: text: Not everything in the economy is getting worse. For instance, inflation has recently fallen.
text: At twilight in the summer[…]the mice come out. They[…]eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly—the only lavishment of which he was ever guilty—on the floor.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, chapter II, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
text: "Such an outcome would be unusual?" / "Exceptional. But then there are exceptions. And I'm straining every nerve to make this one!" / "And the suffering — such as today's, for instance — is unavoidable?"
ref: 1907, Edith Wharton, The Fruit of the Tree, page 205:
text: One taps any source of comfort — Leigh Ashton at Charleston yesterday for instance.
ref: 1940, Virginia Woolf, edited by Leonard Woolf, A Writer's Diary, published 1953, page 323:
text: I met one yesterday, for instance – some treat he was!
ref: 2006, Michael Karpelson, The Master And Margarita, translation of original by Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov, page 66:
text: For instance, one can always find a division that is envy-free and equitable: The equal division is an example.
ref: 2009, Christoph Börgers, Mathematics of Social Choice, page 190:
text: Take yesterday for instance. You can see how busy the store gets and we packers have to be ultra careful how we load the shelves and where we erect the pyramids. Two children aged about eight and ten were racing around the store playing[…]
ref: 2011, Gordon Finn, Yesterday's Porridge, page 6:
glosses: As an example.
Synonyms: sense: as an example
word: for example
sense: as an example
word: e.g.
sense: as an example
word: exempli gratia
for instance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: for instances
form: f'rinstance
form: frinstance
form: fer instance
form: ferinstance
form: fer-instance
Senses: examples: text: Here's a for instance.
glosses: An example.
all over again
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I spent five hours finding a suitable present for my sister, but then I lost it and had to look all over again.
synonyms: over again
glosses: Once again; one further time.
catch fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catches fire
form: catching fire
form: caught fire
form: caught fire
form: catch on fire
form: go on fire
Senses: examples: text: Ships' logs noted observations of the northern lights as far south as the Caribbean, and telegraph systems across the world were disrupted as electrical currents were induced in the copper lines. Several telegraph operators received electric shocks and some telegraph stations even caught fire.
ref: 2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 30:
synonyms: word: go up in flames
word: go up in smoke
word: catch on fire
word: catch fire
word: combust
word: conflagrate
word: fire
word: go up in flames
word: go up in smoke
word: ignite
word: light
word: spunk
word: take fire
glosses: To become engulfed in flames, to combust.
examples: text: The news caught fire through the school, and Layla found herself — a mere first-year student at the secondary school — the center of attention and admiration.
ref: 2002, Latifa Al-Zayyat, Marilyn Booth, The Open Door, page 9:
glosses: To become very popular or widespread; to take off.
glosses: To be inspired by passion or zeal.
do the honors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does the honors
form: doing the honors
form: did the honors
form: done the honors
form: do the honor
form: do the honours
Senses: glosses: To act as a host to guests.
glosses: To perform a duty.
Related terms: word: be mother
do the honours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does the honours
form: doing the honours
form: did the honours
form: done the honours
form: do the honors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of do the honors.
look like
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks like
form: looking like
form: looked like
form: looked like
Etymology: From Middle English loken like, equivalent to look + like (conjunction and preposition).
Senses: examples: text: It looks like rain later today.
text: It looks like it will rain later today.
text: It looks like I'm stuck with you.
text: Ostriches look like emus to some people, but they are only distantly related.
text: You wake up on what looks like Salisbury Plain, but in Africa.
text: The port does not look like much from the ground.
text: (UK) He always looks like scoring a goal if not two.
glosses: To resemble or have the appearance of being; to seem to be.
Derived terms: if it looks like a duck
Related terms: look alike
for example
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The book has quite a few plot holes. For example, it's never explained why the main character came to town.
text: The more highly the injured part is endowed with sensory nerves the more marked is the shock; a crush of the hand, for example, is attended with a more intense degree of shock than a correspondingly severe crush of the foot
ref: 1921, Alexis Thomson, Alexander Miles, Manual of Surgery:
text: For a structuralist like Edmund Leach, the structure is the meaning. Genesis, for example, is about incest taboos; all the rest is noise and mystification.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 12:
synonyms: word: for instance
word: e.g.
word: eg
word: such as
word: like
glosses: As an example.
Related terms: for one
spit-ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spit-balls
Etymology: From spit + ball.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of spitball (“balled-up piece of paper”).
necessity is the mother of invention
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: necessity is the mother of innovation
Senses: glosses: The primary driving force for most new inventions is a need.
Related terms: make a virtue of necessity
the wish is father to the thought
Christianise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Christianises
form: Christianising
form: Christianised
form: Christianised
Senses: examples: text: One of them talks about how, an hour ago, a Christian man insulted the Prophet Muhammad in the market, and how all true Muslims must arise now before Kontagora is over-Christianised.
ref: 2023, Stephen Buoro, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, Bloomsbury Circus, page 31:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Christianize.
de-Christianise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: de-Christianises
form: de-Christianising
form: de-Christianised
form: de-Christianised
form: de-Christianize
Etymology: From de- + Christianize.
Senses: glosses: To make unchristian or non-Christian.
glosses: To deprive of Christian character or aspect.
glosses: To become un-Christian.
glosses: To renounce one's Christian faith.
Related terms: Christianise
fit-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fit-outs
Etymology: Deverbal from fit out.
Senses: examples: text: Well, thought her parents and the neighbors, the old coger is going to do the handsome thing for little Sally, perhaps when she gets married, in the shape of a nice fit-out; he may give her a snug little cottage, who knows […]
ref: 1851, Carpet-bag: A Literary Journal, volume 1:
text: In a project update released on October 21, Crossrail also said that by the end of 2019 the final fit-out, testing and commissioning is due to be completed at many of the new stations.
ref: 2019 November 6, “Network News”, in Rail, page 26:
glosses: Alternative form of fitout.
Nipponophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nipponophiles
Etymology: From Nippono- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: […] Strauss had become something of a Nipponophile and had returned to Japan for a sabbatical in 1958.
ref: 1997, Errol C. Friedberg, Correcting the Blueprint of Life: An Historical Account of the Discovery of DNA Repair Mechanisms, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, →ISBN, page 114:
text: CALL ME A NIPPONOPHILE—a secret admirer of Japan, a worshiper from afar.
ref: 2003, William Illsey Atkinson, Nanocosm: Nanotechnology and the Big Changes Coming from the Inconceivably Small, Amacom, →ISBN, page 213:
text: The place was actually set up by a Nipponophile Englishman, but the kitchen staff are all Japanese and its Far Eastern credentials bear scrutiny.
ref: 2003 October, Charles Campion, The Rough Guide to London Restaurants: 2004, 6th edition, Penguin Putnam, →ISBN, page 29:
synonyms: Japanophile
antonyms: Nipponophobe
Japanophobe
glosses: One who loves Japan or Japanese culture.
glosses: An advocate of Japanese thought or culture.
Related terms: Nipponophilia
Nipponophilic
houseleek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhaʊsliːk/
Forms: form: houseleeks
Etymology: From Middle English houslek, probably from Old English *hūslēac, from Proto-West Germanic *hūsalauk. Cognate with Dutch huislook, German Hauslauch, Danish husløg, Swedish huslök. By surface analysis, house + leek.
Senses: glosses: Any of several succulent plants, of the genus Sempervivum, having a rosette of fleshy leaves.
Synonyms: word: ay-green
word: ayegreen
word: bullock's eye
alt: disused
word: cyphel
word: foose
word: fouat
word: fouet
word: full
word: healing blade
word: healing leaf
word: homewort
english: chiefly in English regional use
translation: chiefly in English regional use
word: house-green
word: Jove's beard
word: jubarb
word: Jupiter's beard
word: Jupiter's eye
word: liveforever
word: seagreen
word: sedum
word: semper-vivens
word: sempervive
word: sempervivum
word: sengreen
word: thunder-plant
word: welcome-home-husband-though-never-so-drunk
Hyponyms: taxonomic: Sempervivum globiferum
word: hen and chicken
Derived terms: taxonomic: Sempervivum arachnoideum
word: cobweb houseleek
taxonomic: Sempervivum arachnoideum
word: cottony houseleek
taxonomic: Sedum reflexum
word: dwarf houseleek
taxonomic: Sempervivum tectorum
word: roof houseleek
stand in someone's shoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stands in someone's shoes
form: standing in someone's shoes
form: stood in someone's shoes
form: stood in someone's shoes
Senses: examples: text: How would it be, if you were standing in my shoes?
glosses: to see from another's point of view; to feel what another feels.
Related terms: put oneself in someone's shoes
step into someone's shoes
walk in someone's shoes
thymosin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thymosins
Senses: glosses: A polypeptide hormone, secreted by the thymus, that stimulates the development of T cells as part of the immune system
thyrocalcitonin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌθaɪ.ɹoʊˌkæl.sɪˈtoʊ.nɪn/
Forms: form: thyrocalcitonins
Etymology: From thyro- + calcitonin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of calcitonin.