cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
torturing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torturings
Senses: examples: text: ... sae little about the elect that are tried wi' hornings, chasings, catchings, imprisonments, torturings, banishments, headings, hangings, dismemberings, and quarterings quick...
ref: 1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter VIII, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume II (Old Mortality), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]; London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 200:
text: Terrible shall the vengeance of the Tisroc be: even now. But kill me, and the burnings and torturings in these northern lands shall become a tale to frighten the world a thousand years hence.
ref: 1954, C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy:
text: No, I'm too busy seething over another irony: whenever I've complained about my country's torturings, renderings, detentions, etc, there's always been some smug bastard ready to respond that these measures are what guarantee smart-alecky writers like myself our freedom of speech.
ref: 2009, Barbara Ehrenreich, “My unwitting role in acts of torture”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An act of torture
torturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of torture
bluffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌfɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌfɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bluff
bluffing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌfɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌfɪŋ
Forms: form: bluffings
Senses: glosses: A bluff; a false expression of the strength of one's position in order to intimidate.
hostages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hostage
faked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪkt/
rhymes: -eɪkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fake
clowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klaʊnz/
rhymes: -aʊnz
Senses: glosses: plural of clown
clowns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klaʊnz/
rhymes: -aʊnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clown
Watusi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Watusis
form: Watusi
Senses: glosses: A member of a Bantu-speaking people living in Rwanda and Burundi; the Tutsi.
examples: text: Watusis are recommended for crossing (with Longhorns) to obtain good roping cattle for the rodeo.
ref: 1995, Marleen Felius, Cattle Breeds: An Encyclopedia, page 759:
text: Converted vehicle stopped in Nebraska with gigantic-horned Watusi bovine called Howdy Doody as passenger[.]
ref: 2023 August 31, “US driver pulled over with huge African bull riding shotgun in car”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A cow of a modern American breed.
glosses: Alternative form of watusi (“1960s dance”).
Derived terms: Ankole-Watusi
zone out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: zones out
form: zoning out
form: zoned out
form: zoned out
Senses: synonyms: space out
tune out
zone off
glosses: To stop paying attention and think about something else, or to think about nothing
yuk it up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: yuks it up
form: yukking it up
form: yukked it up
form: yukked it up
form: yuck it up
Senses: glosses: To clown around: to behave clownishly; to joke idly.
Synonyms: sense: behave clownishly, idly
word: act out
sense: behave clownishly, idly
word: clown around
sense: behave clownishly, idly
word: goof off
sense: behave clownishly, idly
word: horse around
sense: behave clownishly, idly
word: muck about
sense: behave clownishly, idly
word: muck around
sense: behave clownishly, idly
word: muck up
dressing-down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dressing-downs
form: dressings-down
form: dressing down
Senses: examples: text: "I'll give him a dressing down, see if I don't." Mrs. Mudge's eyes snapped viciously, and she clutched the relics of the broom with a degree of energy which rendered it uncertain what sort of a dressing down she intended for her husband.
ref: 1865, Horatio Alger, Jr., Paul Prescott's Charge:
text: When the blacksmith saw what Babo had done to his mother, he caught him by the collar, and fell to giving him such a dressing down as never man had before.
ref: 1894, Howard Pyle, Twilight Land:
text: "We must all bow to you, and try to get a favorable word, must we? This man shall have a leg up, and this man shall have a dressing down!"
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: Just ask Gen. Yevgeny I. Ignatov, a former mayor of Torzhok, who stepped down two years ago after a dressing-down from the regional governor.
ref: 2013 October 13, Ellen Barry, “The Russia Left Behind: A journey through a heartland on the slow road to ruin”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A reprimand or rarely, a thrashing.
Related terms: dress down
subwavelength
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sub-wavelength
Etymology: From sub- + wavelength.
Senses: examples: text: Planar metamaterials with subwavelength thickness, or metasurfaces, consisting of single-layer or few-layer stacks of planar structures, can be readily fabricated using lithography and nanoprinting methods, and the ultrathin thickness in the wave propagation direction can greatly suppress the undesirable losses.
ref: 2016, Hou-Tong Chen, Antoinette J Taylor, Nanfang Yu, “A review of metasurfaces: physics and applications”, in arXiv:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having dimensions less than the wavelength of the light employed.
raw_tags: of an optical component
Derived terms: subwavelength aperture
subwavelength hole array
subwavelength imaging
subwavelength optics
subwavelength photolithography
subwavelength photonics
subwavelength
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subwavelengths
form: sub-wavelength
Etymology: From sub- + wavelength.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A wavelength that is a fraction of another
surface plasmon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surface plasmons
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A quantized electromagnetic wave trapped at a metallic surface through interaction with the free electrons of the metal.
macroevolutionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + evolutionary.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or as a result of macroevolution
heterotrimeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + trimeric.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing three different subunits.
raw_tags: of a protein
Related terms: G protein
G protein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: G proteins
form: G-protein
Etymology: From guanine nucleotide-binding protein.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of proteins, found in cell membranes, that pass signals between hormone receptors and effector enzymes
G-protein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: G-proteins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of G protein.
haloenzyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haloenzymes
Etymology: From halo- + enzyme.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that is activated by a cofactor.
Synonyms: holoenzyme
Related terms: apoenzyme
coenzyme
apoenzyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apoenzymes
Etymology: From apo- + enzyme.
Senses: examples: text: The use of chemical reagents as enzyme inhibitors has yielded information concerning the mechanism of inhibition and the role in catalysis played by active groups on the protein apoenzyme, the coenzyme, or the metal component.
ref: 1957 January, I.W. Sizer, “Chemical aspects of enzyme inhibition”, in Science, volume 125, number 3237, →DOI, →PMID, page 54:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An inactive haloenzyme lacking a cofactor.
holoenzyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holoenzymes
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A haloenzyme.
Derived terms: intraholoenzyme
halo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /ˈhæləʊ/
Etymology: Combining form of Ancient Greek ἅλς (háls, “sea, salt”).
Senses: glosses: sea, salt, salt water
halo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /ˈhæləʊ/
Etymology: From halogen.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Forming names of chemical compounds which contain one or more halogen atoms.
accretion shock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accretion shocks
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A spherical shock wave that arises when material spirals inward to a gravitational source such as a star or black hole.
smoothest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of smooth: most smooth
smoothest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of smooth
Little Christmas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Green Christmas
Old Christmas
Women's Christmas
glosses: January 6th, the Feast of the Epiphany.
Women's Christmas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: January 6th, the Feast of the Epiphany, and traditionally a day for men to do the housework.
Synonyms: Little Christmas
innocente
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of innocent .
innocente
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: innocentes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of robe volante.
synonyms: word: robe volante
meandering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of meander
meandering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more meandering
form: most meandering
Senses: examples: text: After petrol rationing ended in 1952, the BTC was aware that more swingeing cuts had to be made, and a sinister message was conveyed by the loss of the meandering 38-mile route from Blisworth to Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1952, and the 25-mile Abergavenny-Merthyr Heads of the Valleys line in January 1958.
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51:
text: “Billups, how much farther to the compound?” “At our meandering speed, 15 minutes?”
ref: 2024 October 31, Stephanie Amante-Ritter, “The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel” (12:44 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 5, episode 3, spoken by Andy Billups (Paul Scheer):
glosses: Winding or rambling.
Derived terms: meanderingly
unmeandering
meandering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meanderings
Senses: glosses: An instance or period of roaming.
flinting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flint
flinting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flintings
Senses: glosses: The act of making a flint tool.
Hibernia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /haɪˈbɜː(ɹ)nɪə/
/hɪˈbɜː(ɹ)nɪə/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin Hibernia, which see.
Senses: synonyms: Erin
glosses: an island and country in northwestern Europe.
synonyms: Erin
glosses: A female personification of Ireland.
Derived terms: Hibernian
decoherent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːkəʊˈhɪəɹənt/
Forms: form: more decoherent
form: most decoherent
Etymology: From de- + coherent.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Exhibiting decoherence.
Derived terms: decoherency
dilatant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dilatant
form: most dilatant
Senses: glosses: Tending to dilate, or causing dilation.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Exhibiting dilatancy.
dilatant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dilatants
Senses: glosses: A dilator.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A substance whose viscosity increases with rate of shear.
dilator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dilators
Etymology: From dilate + -or.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any nerve or muscle that causes part of the body to dilate.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any drug that causes such dilation.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An instrument used to dilate an orifice or cavity.
Synonyms: sense: that which causes dilation
word: dilatator
sense: that which causes dilation
word: dilater
Derived terms: bronchodilator
cardiodilator
iris dilator muscle
vasodilator
venodilator
dilatancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dilatancies
Etymology: From dilate + -ancy or dilatant + -cy.
Senses: glosses: The property of dilating or expanding, especially by means of an increase in space between the component parts.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The phenomenon of some substances whose viscosity increases with shear rate, or with pressure.
equiaxed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more equiaxed
form: most equiaxed
Etymology: From equi- + axed.
Senses: glosses: Having axes of approximately the same dimensions.
raw_tags: of a crystal
Derived terms: unequiaxed
intertropical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + tropical.
Senses: examples: text: the very superior inducements which most intertropical countries afford
ref: 1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Between or within the tropics.
Derived terms: intertropical convergence zone
intertropical front
carnivoran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kärnĭvərən
ipa: /kɑːˈnɪvərən/
ipa: /kɑːrˈnɪvərən/
Etymology: From Carnivora + -an.
Senses: examples: text: ...the earliest carnivoran diversity appears in the early Miocene rift sediments of East Africa...
ref: 1996, John L. Gittleman, Carnivore Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution Vol.2, page 486:
text: These creatures are so anatomically similar it’s proven hard to figure out their relationships, both with one another and with later carnivoran groups.
ref: 2016 November 26, Elsa Panciroli, “Rifling through the 'wastebaskets' of palaeontology reveals surprises”, in The Guardian:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the order Carnivora.
carnivoran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kärnĭvərən
ipa: /kɑːˈnɪvərən/
ipa: /kɑːrˈnɪvərən/
Forms: form: carnivorans
Etymology: From Carnivora + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the order Carnivora.
Derived terms: Malagasy carnivoran
phagosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phagosomes
Etymology: From phago- + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Granules characterized by their ability to segregate foreign proteins (phagosomes) were identified in the cells of many rat organs after intravenous administration of horseradish peroxidase, by using the conventional test with benzidine for the histochemical detection of peroxidase.
ref: 1959 March 25, Werner Straus, “Rapid Cytochemical Identification of Phagosomes in Various Tissues of the Rat and their Differentiation from Mitochondria by the Peroxidase Method”, in Journal of Cell Biology, volume 5, number 2, page 193:
glosses: A membrane-bound vacuole within a cell containing foreign material captured by phagocytosis.
Derived terms: autolipophagosome
autophagosome
endophagosome
erythrophagosome
heterophagosome
lysophagosome
megaphagosome
melanophagosome
mitophagosome
phagosomal
Related terms: phagolysosome
phagosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phagosome + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a phagosome.
Derived terms: erythrophagosomal
intraphagosomal
mitophagosomal
secretary-general
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secretaries-general
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Secretary General.
Secretary General
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Secretaries General
form: secretary general
form: secretary-general
Etymology: Calque of French secrétaire général, hence the unusual order of adjective following noun (i.e., postpositive).
Senses: glosses: The chief administrator of an international body such as NATO or the United Nations.
glosses: The secretary of a non-Communist political party, governmental entity, or other NGO in many countries.
Synonyms: First Secretary
General Secretary
SG
sectary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sectaries
Etymology: Either from the French sectaire or directly from its etymon, the Medieval Latin sectārius, from secta (“sect”). Cognates include the Italian settario and the Portuguese and Spanish sectario.
Senses: examples: text: Be it as it may: within the Land of Penn / The sectary yielded to the citizen, / And peaceful dwelt the many-creeded men.
ref: 1872, John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Pennsylvania Pilgrim”, in The Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and Other Poems, Boston, Mass.: James R. Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 44:
text: It is this spirit which inspires sectaries to deprecate the public schools and, if they cannot divert part of the tax support, then to foist upon this free system the shadow of their own beclouded vision.
ref: 1953, T.V. Smith, “Democratic Apologetics” in Ethics LXIII, № 2 (January 1953), page 106, left column
glosses: A member of a particular sect, school of thought or practice, party, or profession; a sectarian.
topics: Christianity
glosses: A Protestant dissenter or nonconformist.
middle school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭdl sko͞ol
Forms: form: middle schools
form: middle-school
form: middleschool
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A school which crosses the traditional divide between primary school and secondary school.
examples: text: These authors argue that lists based on university-level reading material cannot be directly imported into contexts such as middle school since the lexical profiles of subjects and their vocabulary demands are different.
ref: 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 107:
topics: education
glosses: An educational level or stage between primary school and secondary school.
Synonyms: intermediate school
junior high school
Derived terms: word: middle schooler
english: translation hub
translation: translation hub
word: middle school student
Related terms: comprehensive
grammar school
junior school
primary school
secondary modern
secondary school
sedgy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛdʒi
Forms: form: more sedgy
form: most sedgy
Etymology: From sedge + -y.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or covered with sedge.
junior school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: junior schools
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A school providing primary education to children.
A school providing education to children in Key Stage 2, i.e. for four academic years from September after a child's 7th birthday.
topics: education
glosses: A school providing primary education to children.
Usually a part of a private school that educates children between the ages of 2 and 5.
topics: education
glosses: A school providing primary education to children.
A school teaching children from kindergarten to Grade 5; an elementary school.
Related terms: comprehensive
grammar school
JMI
middle school
primary school
secondary modern
secondary school
seeder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: homophone: cedar
Forms: form: seeders
Etymology: From Middle English seeder, seder, from Old English sǣdere (“sower”), equivalent to seed + -er.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A device used to plant seeds; a seed drill
glosses: An implement used to remove the seeds from fruit etc.
glosses: A person who seeds clouds in order to make it rain
qualifier: file sharing
glosses: A person connected to a peer-to-peer network who has a complete or partial copy of a given file and makes it available for downloading.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A process that seeds a random number generator.
glosses: A stamp-type leatherworking tool predominantly used in floral designs to represent the seeds in the center of a flower.
seigneur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛˈnjɜ/
ipa: /sɛˈnjɝ/
rhymes: -ɜ(ɹ)
Forms: form: seigneurs
form: seignior
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French seigneur, from Old French seignor. Doublet of seignior, senhor, senior, señor, senyor, signore, sir, and sire.
Senses: examples: text: There was less and less love lost between peasants and seigneurs. The services which the latter had provided for the peasant community in the past had diminished in value.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 156:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A feudal lord or noble in French contexts.
examples: text: Beaumont lives on Sark, a small, autonomous island twenty-five miles off the coast of Normandy, with her husband, Michael, the island's seigneur.
ref: 2012 October 29, Lauren Collins, The New Yorker:
glosses: The hereditary feudal ruler of Sark.
glosses: A landowner in Canada; the holder of a seigneurie.
glosses: A hereditary title in the Bailiwick of Jersey.
Coordinate terms: english: wife of a seigneur
translation: wife of a seigneur
word: seigneuresse
english: a female seigneur
translation: a female seigneur
word: seigneuresse
english: female feudal ruler of Sark
translation: female feudal ruler of Sark
word: dame
Derived terms: seigneurial
seigneury
Related terms: droit de seigneur
grand seigneur
well-balanced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: better-balanced
form: more well-balanced
form: best-balanced
form: most well-balanced
Senses: glosses: properly balanced; in equilibrium
glosses: mentally stable and free from psychological disorder
Theseus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθiːsjuːs/
ipa: /ˈθiːsi.əs/
Forms: form: Thêseus
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Θησεύς (Thēseús). His name comes from the same root as θεσμός (thesmós), Greek for “institution”.
Senses: glosses: A legendary Ancient Greek hero most famous for defeating the minotaur in the labyrinth of Crete.
Derived terms: Thesean
well-behaved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛlbɪˈheɪvd/
ipa: /wɛlbəˈheɪvd/
Forms: form: better-behaved
form: more well-behaved
form: best-behaved
form: most well-behaved
form: well behaved
Etymology: From well + behaved.
Senses: examples: text: The boy is well-behaved and is seldom naughty.
text: How bright were the fire-irons; how clean the Dutch riles round the old-fashioned fire-place, how well-behaved even the cat.
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter II, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 35:
text: Remember that well-behaved software always keeps its hands off the computer's hardware.
ref: 1986, InfoWorld, volume 8, number 43, page 69:
glosses: Having good manners and acting properly; conforming to standards of good behaviour.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having intuitive, easy to handle properties, especially: having a finite derivative of all orders at all points, and having no discontinuities.
Synonyms: mannersome
well-mannered
seemly
Hyponyms: polite
Derived terms: well-behavedly
well-behavedness
Related terms: well-posed
discontinuities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discontinuity
well-connected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: better-connected
form: more well-connected
form: best-connected
form: most well-connected
Senses: glosses: Having close connections with people of wealth or social standing
examples: text: The redevelopment of York station's surroundings to homes alongside office, retail and hospitality space demonstrates how land near stations is being adapted for mixed-use purposes to create well-connected urban areas.
ref: 2025 October 1, Richard Evans, “The value of the railway effect”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 58:
glosses: Of an area, having good transport connections.
well-defined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: better-defined
form: more well-defined
form: best-defined
form: most well-defined
Senses: glosses: Having a clean and distinct outline.
examples: text: AMVAC Chemical Corp. spokesman Brian Maddox said the company does not sell naled into China and has “no idea how it may have been used or how much is applied. By contrast, the application of Naled in the US is well-defined by the USEPA label and is highly controlled to ensure compliance with rigorous US standards.”
ref: 2017 June 9, Susan Scutti, “Study links mosquito spray to delayed motor skills in babies”, in CNN, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2022:
glosses: Accurately and precisely described or specified.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Defined in an unambiguous and consistent way: specifically, such that any two objects implied to be identical are indeed identical.
Hyponyms: defined
Derived terms: well-definedness
well-disposed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: better-disposed
form: more well-disposed
form: best-disposed
form: most well-disposed
Senses: examples: text: A memorial inscription on Long Melford church reads, 'the work of well-disposed men'. It refers to the wool merchants who contributed to its building in the 1490s.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 269:
glosses: friendly and sympathetic
Derived terms: well-disposedness
well-done
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more well-done
form: most well-done
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of well done.
glockenspiels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glockenspiel
well-earned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more well-earned
form: most well-earned
Senses: examples: text: "The Pacers have kept millions of northerners on the move. But while they have served us well and provided some communities with rail services they may have otherwise lost, it is time to give them a well-earned rest," said Northern Regional Director Chris Jackson.
ref: 2020 December 16, Richard Clinnick, “Network News: A new era as Northern bids a final farewell to Pacers”, in Rail, page 10:
glosses: deserved
well-fixed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Reasonably financially secure.
well-groomed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: better-groomed
form: more well-groomed
form: best-groomed
form: most well-groomed
form: well groomed
Senses: examples: text: But winter can also be judged by the prominence of another scourge, one that is especially irksome in a city that places a premium on being well-groomed and immaculately coiffed: hat hair.
ref: 2003 February 17, Elissa Gootman, “A Chill Most Bitter: Learning to Accept Hat Hair”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 27 May 2015:
synonyms: soigné
kempt
glosses: neat and well-dressed
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: Its churchyard has a well-groomed air, with tailored hedges and lawns.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 55:
glosses: neat and tidy
well-grounded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: better-grounded
form: more well-grounded
form: best-grounded
form: most well-grounded
Senses: synonyms: word: groundly
glosses: Of a person: having extensive knowledge of a subject.
antonyms: ill-grounded
glosses: Of an argument, etc.: based on good judgment and solid reasoning.
wellhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛlhɛd/
Forms: form: wellheads
form: well-head
Etymology: From well + head.
Senses: examples: text: Leaue the troubled streames,
And liue as Thriuers doe at the Well head.
ref: 1607, George Chapman, Bussy D'Ambois, London: William Aspley, act I, scene 1, page 3:
text: It is a singular circumstance, that within a quarter of a mile of the well-head of the Wye, arises the Severn.
ref: 1789, William Gilpin, Observations on the River Wye, London: R. Blamire, Section 6, p. 74:
text: We set forth accordingly by this itinerary; and for the best part of three nights travelled on eerie mountains and among the well-heads of wild rivers; [...]
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Flight in the Heather: The Quarrel”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC, pages 239–240:
glosses: The place where a spring breaks out of the ground; the source of water for a stream or well.
examples: text: [H]e likened was to a welhed / Of euill words, and wicked ſclaunders by him ſhed.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 26, page 303:
text: [...] a bull was not merely a stud animal worth so much, due to go to the butcher in a little while. It was a vast wonder-beast, a well-head of the great, furnace-like passion that makes the worlds roll and the sun surge up [...]
ref: 1932, D. H. Lawrence, “Painted Tombs of Tarquinia”, in Etruscan Places, New York: Viking, published 1957, page 113:
glosses: The source of something; a fountainhead.
glosses: The surface structure of an oil well etc.
Derived terms: wellhead cost
well-informed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: better-informed
form: more well-informed
form: best-informed
form: most well-informed
Senses: examples: text: Second, a railway research department represents a qualified and specialised consultancy service, to provide the basis for well-informed high-level decisions regarding new designs or possible lines of development.
ref: 1961 February 24, R. K. Evans, “The role of research on British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 92:
text: You’re well-informed, so you already microwave your germy kitchen sponge. Or should you?
ref: 2019 October 7, Sandee LaMotte, “The germiest place in your home and the best way to combat those microbes”, in CNN:
text: This is especially important when things are not going to plan - well-informed passengers tend to react better to delays and disruption.
ref: 2022 March 9, Ben Jones, “RAIL Supplement: Return Ticket”, in RAIL, number 952, page 28 (supplement):
glosses: Furnished with sufficient, correct knowledge.
well-intentioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: better-intentioned
form: more well-intentioned
form: best-intentioned
form: most well-intentioned
Senses: examples: text: A 21-Valyrian steel dagger salute to Paddy Considine, who makes his exit from House Of The Dragon this week with a thunderclap of a performance. “The Lord of the Tides” is the swan song for his King Viserys I Targaryen, a well-intentioned but indecisive man who waited until the very last day of his life to flex his royal might.
ref: 2022 October 10, Jenna Scherer, “House Of The Dragon drops its best episode yet”, in AV Club:
glosses: Having good intentions, even if producing unfortunate results.
Synonyms: well-intended
well-meant
well-meaning
well-knit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more well-knit
form: most well-knit
Senses: glosses: Firmly constructed and held together
well-made
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: better-made
form: more well-made
form: best-made
form: most well-made
Senses: glosses: Properly constructed or manufactured.
Derived terms: well-made play
well-meant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more well-meant
form: most well-meant
Senses: examples: text: When a loved aunt has sweated herself to the bone trying to save her god-child from the clutches of a New York playboy and learns that all her well-meant efforts have gone blue on her, it's only natural for her late brother's son to shudder in sympathy.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: Having good intentions, even if resulting in unfortunate consequences.
Synonyms: well-intentioned
well-ordered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more well-ordered
form: most well-ordered
Senses: glosses: Having a precise arrangement.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having a well-order.
well-ordered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of well-order
well-preserved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: better-preserved
form: more well-preserved
form: best-preserved
form: most well-preserved
form: well preserved
Senses: glosses: healthy and ageing gracefully
raw_tags: of an older person
examples: text: Its [listed building] designation is due to its 'group value' with Mostyn's station and goods shed, and to it being a well-preserved early 20th century example.
ref: 2021 November 3, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Boxes with functions across the centuries”, in RAIL, number 943, page 58:
text: Experts say it is the best-preserved mammoth carcass in the world and is one of only seven whole remains ever found.
ref: 2024 December 23, Agence France-Presse, “Baby mammoth in Russia is the ‘best-preserved’ ever found”, in The Guardian:
qualifier: possibly ancient; object; possibly ancient; object
glosses: in good condition considering its age.
raw_tags: of an old
well-timed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: better-timed
form: more well-timed
form: best-timed
form: most well-timed
Senses: glosses: Happening at an opportune or advantageous time.
glosses: Keeping accurate time.
Synonyms: sense: opportune or advantageous time
word: opportune
word: seasonable
word: timely
well-turned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: better-turned
form: more well-turned
form: best-turned
form: most well-turned
Senses: glosses: Having a pleasing shape
glosses: Pleasingly expressed
raw_tags: of language
glosses: Expertly turned on a lathe
raw_tags: of woodwork
get a fix
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets a fix
form: getting a fix
form: got a fix
form: got a fix
form: gotten a fix
Senses: glosses: To obtain something necessary, especially a dose of an addictive drug or anything else compulsively sought after.
Related terms: get a fix on
vice director
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vice directors
form: vice-director
Senses: glosses: A deputy to a director, often empowered to assume the position of president on his or her death or absence.
vice-director
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vice-directors
Etymology: From vice- + director.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vice director.
heat pump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heat pumps
Senses: glosses: A device that transfers thermal energy between spaces using a refrigeration cycle, usually between an enclosed space and the outdoors.
Related terms: heat engine
endarterectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: endarterectomies
form: endarteriectomy
Etymology: From endarterium + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical procedure to remove plaque from an artery.
Derived terms: endarterectomize
thrombendarterectomy
thromboendarterectomy
Related terms: atherosclerosis
atherectomy
endarterium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endarteria
Etymology: From end- + artery + -ium.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The lining of an artery.
Derived terms: endarterectomy
endarterial
endarteritis
endarteropathy
non-sequiteur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of non sequitur.
pluterperfect
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pluterperfect
form: most pluterperfect
Senses: examples: text: He married, and this is the biographer's portrait of his pluterperfect spouse
ref: 1908, The Cornhill Magazine, page 399:
text: The pluterperfect imperturbability of the department of agriculture.
ref: 1918, James Joyce, Ulysses:
glosses: Alternative form of pluperfect.
More than perfect
examples: text: The first pluterperfect will have none of them, but take quand, when, quand j'aurois eu, when I should have had.
ref: 1673, Claude Mauger, Claudius Mauger's French Grammar, page 182:
text: Sometimes a writer will establish the set-back by a brief use of the pluterperfect, and then slide undetected, he hopes— into the past again.
ref: 1964, Herbert Best, Writing for children, page 99:
text: ...and renders all the present, and this present past, a more ancient and pluterperfect past than the Valley of the Kings, sir.
ref: 1975, Sol Yurick, An Island Death, page 31:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of pluperfect.
Pertaining to action completed before or at a specific time.
en garde
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /ɒn ˈɡɑɹd/
Etymology: From French en garde.
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: Used to warn one's opponent to take a defensive position prior to a fight.
Related terms: have at you
en garde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɒn ˈɡɑɹd/
Etymology: From French en garde.
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: Ellipsis of en garde position, the start position in fencing.
clashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clash
clashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clashings
Senses: glosses: A clash; the sound or action of clashing; violent collision.
clashing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clashing
form: most clashing
Senses: glosses: conflicting, contrasting, or contrary; inconsonant, incompatible, or irreconcilable
glosses: mismatched, inharmonious, discordant or dissonant, not fitting well together (especially in regards to aesthetics, colors, clothing, or sounds)
glosses: adverse or antagonistic; disagreeing or opposing
examples: text: From inside the mill there came a whizzing, whirring, and clashing sound, and now and then a bright saw-blade flashed in the air, as if in combat with the spirits of the night, to cut the stumps and uneven ends off the logs.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 154:
glosses: Producing a clash or series of clashes.
Derived terms: clashingly
nonclashing
unclashing
spoiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spoil
spoiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoilings
Senses: examples: May 10, 1775, Benjamin Franklin, Proposed Preamble to a Congressional Resolution on Privateering
[…] all the spoilings, thefts, burnings of houses and towns, and murders of innocent people, perpetrated by their wicked and inhuman corsairs on our coasts […]
glosses: plunder; pillage
Related terms: Q-spoiling
hardening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of harden
hardening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hardenings
Senses: glosses: The process by which something hardens.
glosses: Something which hardens.
Derived terms: case hardening
case-hardening
hardening of the arteries
nonhardening
precipitation hardening
radiation hardening
self-hardening
strain hardening
thermohardening
work hardening
dismissing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dismissing
form: most dismissing
Senses: examples: text: When a dismissing patient comes in for therapy, however, positive arousal and laughter may play an important role in establishing the therapeutic attachment bond.
ref: 2012, Judith Kay Nelson, What Made Freud Laugh: An Attachment Perspective on Laughter, page 171:
text: Aline was disillusioned and very dismissing of people not true to their word.
ref: 2021, Lavona Fercho, Prime Ministers’ Wives: Those Who Endure:
text: Her luminous tawny eyes were cool and emotionless, her perfectly tinted lips held only the most dismissing of smiles, except when it came to her friend.
ref: 2024, Anne Stuart, Blind Date from Hell:
glosses: Dismissive.
Derived terms: dismissingly
dismissing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dismiss
eloquently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more eloquently
form: most eloquently
Etymology: From Middle English eloquently, eloquentely, equivalent to eloquent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: There they were before us, mother and babe, the white memories of a forgotten human history speaking more eloquently to the heart than could any written record of their lives.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: Does she speak eloquently? / And would she have your baby? / I'm sure she'd make a really excellent mother
ref: 1995, “You Oughta Know”, in Jagged Little Pill, performed by Alanis Morissette:
glosses: In an eloquent manner; stated well.
grunion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹʌnjən/
rhymes: -ʌnjən
Forms: form: grunions
Etymology: Uncertain, but probably from American Spanish gruñón (“grunter, grouch”), from gruñir (“to grunt”).
Senses: glosses: Either of two small fish, of the genus Leuresthes, found along the coast of Mexico and southern California, that spawn in the wet sand at certain high tides.
groundswell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groundswells
form: ground swell
Etymology: From ground + swell.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
sports
surfing
transport
glosses: A broad undulation of the open ocean, often as the result of a distant disturbance.
examples: text: An astonishing groundswell of support for the new Democratic frontrunner, Barack Obama, is threatening to sweep Hillary Clinton away in New Hampshire, which holds the first primary election of the 2008 presidential contest tomorrow.
ref: 2008 January 7, Ewen MacAskill, “Groundswell for Obama leaves Clinton campaign on the rack”, in The Guardian:
text: The 1987 book British Piers was written at a time when Britain's seaside resorts were perhaps at their lowest ebb, with a groundswell of support for rejuvenation and conservation just beginning.
ref: 2020 July 29, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railways that reach out over the waves”, in Rail, page 51:
text: The public’s endorsement of the war lacks the patriotic groundswell that greeted the annexation of Crimea in 2014.
ref: 2022 April 1, Anton Troianovski, Ivan Nechepurenko, Valeriya Safronova, “Shaken at First, Many Russians Now Rally Behind Putin’s Invasion”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Investments in research, deployment and scaling existing technologies are the initial ripples that will have to build to a groundswell of further action.
ref: 2025 September 11, Kate Marvel, “‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A broadly-based shifting of public opinion.
Related terms: wind swell
candirú
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkændɪˈɹuː/
Forms: form: candirú
form: candirús
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of candiru.
podcasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of podcast
sonas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sona
frowzy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹaʊzi/
rhymes: -aʊzi
homophone: frouzy
Forms: form: frowzier
form: frowziest
Senses: examples: text: And then, ſo nice, and ſo genteel; / Such Cleanlineſs from Head to Heel: / No Humours groſs, or frowzy Steams, / No noiſom Whiffs, or ſweaty Streams, / Before, behind, above, below, / Could from her taintleſs Body flow.
ref: 1731, [Jonathan Swift], “Strephon and Chloe”, in A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed. […], Dublin; London: […] [William Bowyer] for J. Roberts […], published 1734, →OCLC, page 8:
text: I was terribly afraid, from what I had heard of Blackwater Park, of fatiguing antique chairs, and dismal stained glass, and musty, frowzy hangings, and all the barbarous lumber which people born without a sense of comfort accumulate about them, in defiance of all consideration due to the convenience of their friends.
ref: 1859 November 26 – 1860 August 25, [William] Wilkie Collins, “The Narrative of Marian Halcombe, Taken from Her Diary”, in The Woman in White. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, […], published 1860, →OCLC, part I, page 84, column 2:
text: Half the pages of the frazzled directory hanging on a chain in the musty old booth into which I furtively sidled had turned their corners back on themselves. Such books are like frowzy old broads who have been handled by a thousand men.
ref: 1983, Peter De Vries, chapter 3, in Slouching Towards Kalamazoo, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., page 34:
text: It is a relief to be rid of him. But a frowzy, fishy smell lingers in his room.
ref: 1994, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 8, in The Master of Petersburg, London: Secker & Warburg, page 90:
glosses: Alternative spelling of frowsy.
Derived terms: frowzily
frowziness
Related terms: frouzy
conductive pen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conductive pens
Senses: glosses: A liquid polymer delivery system with a form factor similar to a standard ink pen. The polymer is electrically conductive and rapid-drying. Used to create or repair conductive traces on printed circuit boards.
impedimenta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪmˌpɛdɪˈmɛntə/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin impedimenta, circa 1600. Compare impediment.
Senses: examples: text: On the plains they will have horses dragging travoises, dogs with travoises, women and children loaded with impedimenta.
ref: 1892, Julian Ralph, On Canada's Frontier:
text: Dashing back to my compartment, I grabbed my impedimenta - what my companion thought of the maniac who alighted at a station only half-way to the first booked stop I don't know ! - got out, hurried under the subway, and was into my 10.45 comfortably before its departure.
ref: 1939 June, “Pertinent Paragraphs: A Surprise at Didcot”, in Railway Magazine, page 452:
text: Games impedimenta — hockey-sticks, boxing-gloves, a burst football, a pair of sweaty shorts turned inside out — lay all over the floor, and on the table there was a litter of dirty dishes and dog-eared exercise-books.
ref: 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, page 20:
glosses: Equipment intended for an activity that serves as more of a hindrance than a help, especially military baggage.
glosses: plural of impedimentum
Synonyms: impediments
mortally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːtəli/
Forms: form: more mortally
form: most mortally
Etymology: From Middle English mortally, equivalent to mortal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Sir Philip Sidney, soldier, courtier, statesman and poet, was born at Penshurst in 1554. He won imperishable fame 32 years later at the Battle of Zutphen in Holland when, mortally wounded, he refused a drink of water and passed his flask to a wounded soldier, with the words: 'Thy necessity is yet greater than mine.'
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 313:
coordinate_terms: amortally
immortally
glosses: Fatally; in such a way as to cause death.
examples: text: And all the depth of rightfull doome was taught / By faire Astræa with great industrie, / Whilest here on earth she lived mortallie […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: As a mortal.
Derived terms: perimortally
Whigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Whig