cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
matric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈtɹɪk/
ipa: /ˈmeɪtɹɪk/
ipa: /ˈmætɹɪk/
ipa: /məˈtɹɪk/
Etymology: From matrix.
Senses: examples: text: But throughout this book we look upon the matric algebras as our primary object;
ref: 1939, Hermann Weyl, “Chapter 3: Matric algebras and group rings”, in The Classical Groups: Their Invariants and Representations:
text: […] the possibility of using matric methods to solve analysis and synthesis problems becomes apparent.
ref: 1956, R. J. Kavanagh, “The application of matrix methods to multi-variable control systems”, in Journal of the Franklin Institute, volume 262:
text: In other words, its controls are homeomorphic to the matric mathematics.
ref: 1964 September, The Matrix and Tensor Quarterly, page 110:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to matrices.
matrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matric
matrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, a matrix.
Derived terms: extramatrical
matricentred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more matricentred
form: most matricentred
Etymology: From matri- + centred.
Senses: glosses: matricentric
matricentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more matricentric
form: most matricentric
Etymology: From matri- + -centric.
Senses: glosses: Centering around the mother or mothers.
raw_tags: of a family or society
Synonyms: matricentred
Derived terms: matricentricity
they's
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: theys
Senses: examples: text: They's gonna have breakfas' now.
glosses: Contraction of they (third-person pronoun) is.
examples: text: They's a house on the end of the street.
glosses: Contraction of they (=there) is.
they's
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Forms: form: theys
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Synonym of their.
synonyms: word: their
we's
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: We's gonna eat dat sandwich.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Contraction of we is.
Ringo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ringos
form: Ringoes
Etymology: From ring + -o. From the stage name of one of the Beatles, Ringo Starr, actually named Richard Starkey, the drummer of the quartet. From ring, from the rings worn by Richard "Ringo Starr" Starkey.
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A nickname for a drummer.
Ringo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ringos
form: Ringoes
Etymology: From Middle English Ryngros, from Anglo-Norman Ryngotherose, from Norman Ringerose, from Old Norse Hringr, from hringr (“ring”). Compare the surname Ringold.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Ringo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ringos
form: Ringoes
Etymology: From Japanese りんご (Ringo), from 林檎(りんご) (ringo, “apple”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
until Kingdom come
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I will love you until Kingdom come.
glosses: Until death, until the afterlife.
examples: text: He pestered me until Kingdom come about the concert.
text: Brexeternity The notion that Brexit will never in fact be over; that Britain will be stuck half-in and half-out of the European Union forever, condemned to permanent and mind-numbingly awful negotiations until kingdom come (coined by Tony Blair’s Europe minister Denis MacShane).
ref: 2018 November 15, Jon Henley, “From here to Brexeternity: an alternative lexicon for these times”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: As it stands, the trajectory of the typical reality TV star is to continue appearing on each iteration of these shows until kingdom come (or until they are offered their own spin-off).
ref: 2020 July 30, Yomi Adegoke, “How 15 minutes of fame became 15 years for the perma-stars of reality TV”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: At overly frequent intervals.
Synonyms: sense: until the afterlife
word: forever
sense: until the afterlife
word: eternally
sense: frequently
word: relentlessly
sense: frequently
word: frequently
Santa Barbara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish, meaning Saint Barbara.
Senses: glosses: Any of several cities.
glosses: Any of several cities.
A city, the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California, United States.
glosses: An island of Santa Barbara County, California, off the coast, one of the Channel Islands.
Synonyms: word: Sta. Barbara
Derived terms: word: Santa Barbara Channel
word: Santa Barbara County
word: santabarbaraite
word: Sta. Barbara
légitime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: légitimes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of legitime.
mousseline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmuːsəliːn/
ipa: /ˈmuːsliːn/
ipa: /muːˈsliːn/
Forms: form: mousselines
Etymology: From French mousseline. Doublet of muslin.
Senses: glosses: A very fine, semi-opaque fabric similar to muslin, typically made of silk, wool or cotton.
glosses: A soft, light sweet or savoury mousse.
glosses: A hollandaise sauce that has been made frothy with whipped cream or egg white, served mainly with fish or asparagus.
glosses: A very thin glass for claret glasses.
Related terms: mousseline de laine
mousselines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mousseline
légitimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of légitime
black-marketing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of black-market
bituminouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bituminous
incertain
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incertain
form: most incertain
form: incertaine
Etymology: From Middle English incertayne, borrowed from Middle French incertain, derived in the 14th c. from certain, after Latin incertus (“uncertain”). By surface analysis, in- + certain.
Senses: examples: text: ...or to be worse then worst
Of those, that lawlesse and incertaine thought,
Imagine howling, 'tis too horrible.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 71, column 2, lines 126–128:
text: And again, that as these acquisitions are in themselves generally worthless, so are the means to attain them not only base and infamous, but at best incertain, and always full of danger.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
glosses: Not certain, uncertain.
Synonyms: uncertain
Related terms: incertitude
crystal-clear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crystal-clear
form: crystal-clearer
form: most crystal-clear
form: crystal-clearest
Senses: examples: text: Awaking in the dead of night, I opened my eyes on her disk—silver-white and crystal-clear.
ref: 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter V, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 110:
text: But if the government official upbraids the private citizen for elevating his private affairs to the level of state interests, the private citizen likewise upbraids the official for demeaning the state interests into his private affair, into interests from which all others are excluded as laymen, so that even the crystal-clearest reality seems illusory to him as against the reality embodied in the documents under his nose—which is therefore the official reality, the state reality . . .
ref: 1977, Hal Draper, Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution, volume 1 (State and Bureaucracy), New York, N.Y.; London: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, page 65:
text: To get away from everybody else who’s getting away from it all, it’s a simple matter to head for the northern coast of the Gargano, near the obscure fishing village of Vieste, where a 40-mile-long strand is punctuated at either end by two huge dunes, or travel to the garland of islands that rings Italy’s coast — Elba, Giglio, Ponza, Ischia & Co. — for the country’s freshest fish and crystal-clearest waters.
ref: 1989, Stephen Birnbaum, Alexandra Mayes Birnbaum, editors, Birnbaum’s Italy, 1990, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 436:
text: Growing up in the Caribbean surrounded by some of the most crystal-clear water in the world, I have vivid memories of the fresh smell of earth during the intermittent bouts of rain on an otherwise sunny day.
ref: 2014, Tracy Piper with Eve Adamson, The Piper Protocol: The Insider’s Secret to Weight Loss and Internal Fitness, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 88:
text: Silfra is a fissure between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates, which are drifting apart at a rate of 2cm each year. And it’s filled with glacial run-off that has been filtered though underground lava for decades and, consequently, is the very crystal-clearest blue – the visibility is about 100m.
ref: 2015 August, Andrew Bain et al., edited by Karyn Noble, Ross Taylor, and Nick Mee, Ultimate Travel: Our List of the 500 Best Places to See… Ranked, Oakland, Calif.: Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd, →ISBN, page 186:
glosses: Alternative form of crystal clear.
fragiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fragile
frots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of frot
frotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of frot
frotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frot
bossnapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bossnappings
Etymology: From boss + -nap + -ing.
Senses: glosses: A means of activism in which staff kidnap or surround a corporate executive until demands are met.
Related terms: gherao
lock-in
Moray
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌɹi/
homophone: Murray
homophone: murrey
rhymes: -ʌɹi
Etymology: From Medieval Latin Moravia, Morauia, from Scottish Gaelic Moireibh, Moireabh, Moreb, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *mori (“sea”) + *trebā (“settlement”).
Senses: glosses: A historical county in northern Scotland, absorbed into Grampian Region in 1975.
glosses: A local government district in Grampian Region from 1975 until Grampian Region's abolition in 1996.
glosses: A council area of Scotland, one of 32 created in 1996.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Doniphan County, Kansas, United States.
Synonyms: english: county
translation: county
word: Morayshire
Derived terms: Moray Firth
Related terms: Moravian
Morayvian
anti-smoking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + smoking.
Senses: examples: text: an anti-smoking ordinance
text: The park is an anti-smoking zone.
glosses: Alternative form of antismoking.
entrainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entrainers
Etymology: From entrain + -er.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance used for entraining.
avalanching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The snow is avalanching the skiers.
glosses: present participle and gerund of avalanche
epicenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epicene
extrinsicality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extrinsicalities
Etymology: From extrinsical + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being extrinsic.
Synonyms: word: extrinsicness
word: extrinsicity
word: extraneousness
word: extrinsicality
word: inessentialness
word: irrelevantness
Related terms: word: extrinsic
dégustation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dégustations
Senses: examples: text: NOT EVEN PUSCHLAVER SCHMUGGLERTRUNK CAN SPOIL OUR DÉGUSTATIONS
ref: 1969, Country Fair, page 86, column 1:
text: The Carleton Room, exquisitely elegant with its embroidered wallpaper and French provincial decor, offers fine continental cuisine, a special dégustation, as well as the hotel’s alternative cuisine—appetizer, salad, and main course totaling less than 650 calories.
ref: 1990, Tom Brosnahan, Marilyn Wood, John Godwin, “Central Canada: Ottawa”, in Canada (Frommer’s), 6th edition, →ISBN, page 286:
text: Tours give a comprehensive overview of the life cycle of cacao plants and the production of chocolate (with dégustation!).
ref: 2006, Costa Rica: A Travel Survival Kit, Lonely Planet Publications, →ISBN, page 421, column 2:
text: The bold, straightforward cheesiness of a good mac’n’cheese, the simple, eat-with-your-hands casualness of burgers and fried chicken are still part of our gastronomic makeup, even when we are sitting down to an elegant multicourse dégustation.
ref: 2011, Kit Wohl, “Introduction”, in The James Beard Foundation’s Best of the Best: A 25ᵗʰ Anniversary Celebration of America’s Outstanding Chefs, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN, section “A Uniquely American Cuisine”, page 11, column 1:
text: The beverage menu explained that its concoctions—“created using juicing, infusing, and brewing methods”—were specially designed for the evening’s dégustations.[…]While it’s true that the outsize prices of dégustations are the biggest markups in business, the demands that tasting menus place on diners—in cost, time, and attention—make the customers for restaurants featuring only them,[…]Now it’s common to find well-regarded fine-dining menus with less than half of Maccioni’s ideal, or in cases of the set-price dégustations I discuss in chapter 1, with no food choice at all.
ref: 2018, Alison Pearlman, May We Suggest: Restaurant Menus and the Art of Persuasion, Surrey Books, →ISBN:
text: Washintown was in for some dégustations like it had never expected.
ref: 2019, Martha Skewermann, “Eviction Night”, in Dire and Puny: Outside Chump’s Blackened House, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of degustation.
dégustations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dégustation
expediant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of expedient.
high-performance
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: higher-performance
form: highest-performance
Senses: examples: text: The new high-performance computer can run all the new software and games.
synonyms: performant
antonyms: low-performance
glosses: Having the quality of performing exceptionally well.
Boy Scouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Boy Scout
exosome complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exosome complexes
Senses: qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: A multi-protein complex capable of degrading various types of RNA molecules and found in eukaryotic cells and archaea.
theocon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theocons
Etymology: Shortening, similar to neocon etc.
Senses: examples: text: Theo-cons demonized the emerging health crisis [AIDS] as a "gay plague".
ref: 2007 May 21, Leslie Feinberg, “Cuba mobilized before first diagnosis”, in Workers World:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Clipping of theoconservative.
Related terms: theoconservatism
theoconservatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From theo- + conservatism.
Senses: glosses: The political philosophy stating that religion should play a role in forming public policy.
Synonyms: dominionism
integralism
dukun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dukuns
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay dukun. Doublet of lokun.
Senses: glosses: A Malay shaman or witch doctor.
pourparlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pourparler
theocons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theocon
escrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of escrow
escrowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of escrow
estrogenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From estrogen + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any condition caused by the ingestion of estrogen
lage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Probably from Irish lag (“weak”), from Old Irish lac, from Proto-Celtic *laggos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₁g-.
Senses: examples: text: I bowse no lage, but a whole gage / Of this I'll bowse to you.
ref: 1641–42, Richard Brome, A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, act 2:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: Water; any weak alcoholic beverage.
lage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lages
form: laging
form: laged
form: laged
Etymology: Probably from Irish lag (“weak”), from Old Irish lac, from Proto-Celtic *laggos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₁g-.
Senses: examples: text: I saye by the Salomon I will lage it of with a gage of Benebouse; then cut to my nose watch.
ref: 1566, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: To drink.
phosphaturia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphaturias
Etymology: From phosphate + -uria.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of phosphate in the urine.
Related terms: phosphaturic
hyperphosphaturia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperphosphaturias
Etymology: From hyper- + phosphate + -uria.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of excessive phosphate in the urine
Related terms: hyperphosphaturic
wedder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedders
Etymology: From wed + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The wedder of the heiress! is his lot all bliss when he has made the grand coup, and married for money after a long career of debts, difiiculties, and dishonoured bills? I think not; […]
ref: 1864, St. James' Magazine and United Empire Review, volume 9, page 239:
glosses: A person who marries.
Synonyms: spouse
wedder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedders
Senses: examples: text: They then retreated to an out-house, took a wedder from the fold, killed it, and supped off the carcass, for which (it is said) they offered payment to the proprietor.
ref: 1829, Rob Roy, Walter Scott, Introduction to the 1829 edition:
text: 1840, Patrick Leslie, Diary entry for 21 February, 1840, cited in Henry Stuart Russell, The Genesis of Queensland, Sydney: Turner & Henderson, 1888, Chapter 7,
Our stock consisted of four thousand breeding ewes in lamb, one hundred ewe hoggets, one thousand wedder hoggets, one hundred rams, and five hundred wedders, three and four years old.
glosses: Alternative form of wether (“castrated buck goat or ram”).
athwartship
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: athwartship bulkheads; an athwartship berth
text: The Nan-Shan had an athwartship bunker which, being frequently used as cargo space, communicated by an iron door with the fore ’tween-deck.
ref: 1902, Joseph Conrad, chapter 14, in Typhoon, New York: Putnam, page 107:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Oriented across the vessel sideways, i.e. in a direction at right angles to the fore-and-aft line of the vessel.
athwartship
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of athwartships.
avalanched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of avalanche
ceros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cero
Mayanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mayanists
Etymology: From Mayan + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies the pre-Columbian Maya.
Related terms: Egyptologist
Sinologist
egyptologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egyptologists
Senses: examples: text: The famous egyptologist, Prof. G. Maspero, is now having the third work of his Egyptian trilogy translated from the French by M. L. McClure
ref: 1899 December 23, “Review 6”, in New York Times:
text: A. Rita Freed, an egyptologist at Memphis State University in Tennessee and the person who put the extra "es" in Ramesses for the Boston exhibition,
ref: 1988 May 9, “ASK THE GLOBE”, in Boston Globe:
text: .. beautiful in the ancient burial ground of the Valley of the Queens and has been closed since its discovery by Italian egyptologist Ernesto Schiaparelli.
ref: 1995 November 5, “PHARONIC TOMB OPEN”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
text: In 1924, Howard Carter, British egyptologist, found the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor.
ref: 1998 January 3, “On this day”, in CNN International:
text: The egyptologists believe that she is one of three mummies discovered in a secret chamber of a tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings in Luxor.
ref: 2003 June 11, “Nefertiti's mummy 'found in Egypt'”, in BBC News:
text: According to Italian egyptologist Professor Sergio Donadoni the theories that have long surrounded Tutankhamen's death have always been produced by "picturesque legends without any scientific basis".
ref: 2005 September 3, “Tutankhamen murder mystery solved”, in ABC Online:
text: The first tomb discovered in Luxor's Valley of the Kings did not reveal its expected mummy, but egyptologists remained bent on cracking the mystery of "KV 63."
ref: 2006 June 28, “No mummy in Valley of the Kings tomb but mystery remains whole”, in Agence France Press:
text: Biomedical egyptologist Jacky Finch of the University of Manchester, UK, who is studying ancient Egyptian big toes, made of wood and leather
ref: 2007 August 2, “Stem cells on the ISS”, in Nature.com:
text: According to egyptologist Christiane Zivie-Coche writing in the exhibition catalogue, the aim of Les Portes du ciel is to provide visitors with ....
ref: 2009 March 26, “Gates of heaven”, in Al-Ahram Weekly:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Egyptologist.
kalemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kalaemia
Etymology: From kal(ium) + -emia.
Senses: examples: text: Patients with renal insufficiency following trauma present special problems in management because clinical uremia, high levels of azotemia and kalemia, and myocardial potassium intoxication develop rapidly.
ref: 1955 February 24, Lloyd H. Smith, Jr., “Post-traumatic Renal Insufficiency in Military Casualties”, in The American Journal of Medicine, volume 18, number 2, II. Management, Use of an Artificial Kidney, Prognosis, page 187:
text: One of the criteria of efficiency is the reversal of these potassium movements, with decrease of kalemia and increase of the intra-cellular cation, expressing a recovery of ATPase activity.
ref: 1982, Veterinary and Human Toxicology, page 67:
text: Various factors influence the effects of hyper and hypokalemia on the heart: the rate of the change in kalemia levels, the plasmatic concentration of remaining ions which contribute to the cell Em, and the simultaneous use of drugs.
ref: 2012, C. Ronco, Critical Care Nephrology:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The presence of potassium in the blood, and (usually, especially) the degree (that is, its concentration).
Coordinate terms: word: calcemia
word: cupremia
word: magnesemia
english: types of biometallic cation concentration in blood
translation: types of biometallic cation concentration in blood
word: natremia
english: blood sugar concentration
translation: blood sugar concentration
word: glycemia
Derived terms: alt: eukalemic
word: eukalemia
word: that is
alt: normokalemic
word: normokalemia
alt: hyperkalemic
word: either hyperkalemia
alt: hypokalemic
word: hypokalemia
word: kalemic
lipoproteinemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipoproteinemias
Etymology: From lipoprotein + -emia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The presence of lipoprotein in the blood
Derived terms: abetalipoproteinemia
dyslipoproteinemia
hyperlipoproteinemia
hypoalphalipoproteinemia
hypolipoproteinemia
natremia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: natremias
Etymology: From natr- + -emia.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The presence of sodium in the blood, and (usually, especially) the degree (that is, its concentration).
Coordinate terms: word: calcemia
word: cupremia
word: kalemia
english: types of biometallic cation concentration in blood
translation: types of biometallic cation concentration in blood
word: magnesemia
english: blood sugar concentration
translation: blood sugar concentration
word: glycemia
Derived terms: alt: eunatremic
word: eunatremia
word: that is
alt: normonatremic
word: normonatremia
alt: hypernatremic
word: either hypernatremia
alt: hyponatremic
word: hyponatremia
word: natremic
TBM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TBMs
Senses: examples: text: Four other TBMs are currently in the ground, digging twin bore tunnels under the Chilterns and in Greater London.
ref: 2022 December 14, Paul Stephen, “HS2's Dorothy starts to dig second tunnel bore”, in RAIL, number 972, page 23:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of tunnel boring machine.
Sinologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sinologists
Etymology: From Sino- + -logist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sinologist.
matchplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of match play.
matriclinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more matriclinous
form: most matriclinous
Senses: examples: text: Inheritance in the males is purely matriclinous as would be expected if they arise in unfertilized eggs.
ref: 1933, Francis Albert Eley Crew, Sex determination, page 76:
text: A few strongly matriclinous underyearlings were obtained (Kobayasi, 1963) when crossing female crucian carp with Japanese Leuciscinae Moroco percnurus and Tribolodon hakonensis.
ref: 1980, Journal of Ichthyology, volume 19, page 59:
text: The pattern of PAGE for several generations of pedigree stocks of P. formosa strictly showed matriclinous inheritance of a diagnostic muscle protein phenotype (Monaco et al., 1982).
ref: 2010, T. J. Pandian, Sexuality in Fishes, page 60:
glosses: Alternative form of matroclinous.
patriclinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more patriclinous
form: most patriclinous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of patroclinous.
matriculand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matriculands
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of matriculant.
grockel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grockels
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of grockle.
matriculands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matriculand
matriculator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matriculators
Etymology: From matriculate + -or.
Senses: glosses: Someone who matriculates, an enroller on a course, especially for a school.
enroller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: enrollers
Etymology: From enroll + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who enrols.
enrollers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enroller
West Country
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the West Country
Senses: synonyms: Wessex
hypernyms: country
coordinate_terms: north country
glosses: A geographic area in the south west of England, especially the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset.
matrifocal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more matrifocal
form: most matrifocal
Etymology: From matri- + focal.
Senses: examples: text: This pattern of children turning towards the mother after a divorce is known as the matrifocal tilt. For younger children, it can be a consequence of custody arrangements that leave the children with the mother. But studies across different countries, and spanning several decades, have also found this matrifocal tilt away from the father in grey divorces with grown-up children.
ref: 2025 September 12, Molly Gorman, “'Was it all smoke and mirrors?': How adult children are affected by grey divorce”, in BBC:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Centered on the mother; matriarchal.
raw_tags: of family structures
Derived terms: matrifocality
matrifocally
matrilateral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ætəɹəl
Etymology: From matri- + lateral.
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Related through one's maternal side.
Derived terms: matrilaterally
Related terms: matrilineal
grockels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grockel
matrilocality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From matrilocal + -ity, from matri- + local.
Senses: qualifier: family
glosses: The state of being matrilocal, for a married couple to be living with the family of the wife.
matrimonious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: matrimonial
staircase lock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staircase locks
Senses: glosses: A set of locks on a waterway canal which rise steeply, and consisting of lock gates where the top gate of one lock is also the bottom gate of the next lock, not having a pound between each level.
staircase locks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staircase lock
English Midlands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A culturally distinct geographic region in the centre of England.
Synonyms: The Midlands
matrist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Favoring the mother over the father.
Synonyms: matristic
matrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matrists
Senses: glosses: Someone who favors their mother over their father.
matrists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matrist
matroclinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: matriclinous
Senses: examples: text: Another frequently cited case of apparent matroclinous heredity is one described by Kühn (1027) in the wasp, Habrobracon juglandis.
ref: 1984, Sewall Wright, Evolution and the Genetics of Populations, volume 1, page 51:
glosses: Having mostly maternally inherited characteristics.
matron of honor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matrons of honor
form: matron of honour
Senses: glosses: The primary woman who assists the bride at a wedding, if this woman is married; a married woman serving in the role of maid of honor.
Related terms: maid of honor
maiden of honor
maiden of honor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maidens of honor
Senses: glosses: A girl or unmarried woman who assists the bride at a wedding.
Related terms: maid of honor
matron of honor
bridesmaid
flower girl
matronal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From matron + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, a matron.
matronage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matronages
Etymology: From matron + -age.
Senses: glosses: The collective body of matrons.
glosses: The state of being a matron.
matronhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From matron + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state of being a matron
matronship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matronships
Etymology: From matron + -ship.
Senses: glosses: matronage
matross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈtɹɒs/
Forms: form: matrosses
Etymology: From Dutch matroos (“sailor, seaman”), essentially from French matelot (“seaman”), from Middle Dutch mattenoot. Compare German Matrose, Swedish matros, Danish matros, and Crimean Tatar matros. Doublet of matelot.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he matrosses, in their annual gesture of amity, had torn the sky with the largest piece of ordnance in the Great Keep […].
ref: 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter V, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 48:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An artilleryman next in rank to a gunner; a gunner's mate, especially one who assists the gunners in loading, firing, and sponging the guns.
matrosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matross
quotidians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quotidian
Ossian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: An anglicisation, made known by James Macpherson, of Irish Oisín, diminutive form of os (“deer”).
Senses: examples: text: Fingal! thou king of heroes! Ossian, next to him in war! ye have fought in your youth; your names are renowned in song.
ref: 1765, James Macpherson, The Poems of Ossian, Tauchnitz, published 1847, page 204:
glosses: A male given name from Irish; rather rare in the Anglo-Saxon world.
glosses: A place name:
A town in Jefferson Township, Wells County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A place name:
A minor city in Winneshiek County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: A place name:
A town in Livingston County, New York, United States.
glosses: A place name:
A river that flows from Loch Ossian, Highland council area, Scotland, ultimately joining the River Spean.
Derived terms: Ossianesque
Ossianic
Ossianism
Ossianize
Related terms: Loch Ossian
eastern tarantula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eastern tarantulas
Senses: glosses: Phlogius crassipes, a species of tarantula native to North Queensland, Australia.
Related terms: taxonomic: Selenocosmia crassipes
word: barking spider another species of tarantula native to Australia
buttie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butties
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of butty.
Fingal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪŋɡəl/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic Fionnghall, from fionn (“fair”) + gall (“stranger”). Used by Macpherson as a rendering of the Irish Fionn mac Cumhail.
Senses: examples: text: Fingal! thou king of heroes! Ossian, next to him in war! ye have fought in your youth; your names are renowned in song.
ref: 1765, James Macpherson, The Poems of Ossian, Tauchnitz, published 1847, page 204:
glosses: A male given name from Scottish Gaelic, best known in Scotland.
Fingal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪŋɡəl/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl
ipa: /ˈfɪŋɡɔːl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
ipa: /ˈfɪŋɡəl/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl
Etymology: From Irish Fine Gall (literally “race of the Norsemen”).
Senses: glosses: A county of Ireland north of Dublin, formed in 1994 from parts of County Dublin.
North Queensland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Despite the failure of attempts to form a separate state, the idea of North Queensland as a distinctive region has existed powerfully almost from first settlement.
ref: 2007, Cheryl Taylor, Elizabeth Perkins, “Warm Words: North Queensland Writing”, in Patrick Buckridge, Belinda McKay, editors, By the Book: A Literary History of Queensland, page 213:
glosses: The northern part of the state of Queensland, loosely defined as being north of either Rockhampton or Mackay.
Derived terms: Far North Queensland
Lilith
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew לִילִית (lîlîṯ).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A Mesopotamian storm demon, a bearer of disease and death.
examples: text: Of Adam's first wife, Lilith, it is told / (The witch he loved before the gift of Eve,) / That, ere the snake's, her sweet tongue could deceive, / And her enchanted hair was the first gold.
ref: 1881, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Body’s Beauty”, in Ballads and Sonnets, London: Ellis and White, […], →OCLC, page 240:
glosses: The first wife of Adam in Jewish folklore.
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The "dark moon" or "black moon", a fictitious invisible second moon of Earth proposed by astrologers in the early 20th century. Now often interpreted as the position of the apogee of the actual Moon, or as the empty focus of the Moon's elliptical orbit (Earth occupying the other focus).
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
Related terms: ⚸
Lalage
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lallage
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λᾰλᾰγή (lălăgḗ, “to prattle”).
Senses: examples: text: "What's her name?"
"Lalage." She pronounced it as a dactyl, the g hard. Still she could not raise her eyes. " Mr Rossetti approached me one day in the street. […] He himself proposed the name. He is her godfather." She murmured, "I know it is strange."
ref: 1969, John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Penguin, published 1981, →ISBN, page 359:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
daos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dao
homocysteinemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homocysteine + -emia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The presence of homocysteine in the blood.
Related terms: hyperhomocysteinemia
hyperhomocysteinemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperhomocysteinemias
Etymology: From hyper- + homocysteine + -emia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The presence of an excessive amount of homocysteine in the blood.
Related terms: homocysteinemia
Hortensia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Hortensia.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Hortense.
Imelda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Imeldas
Etymology: From Romance (Italian Imelda, Spanish Imelda), from German Irmhild.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Romance languages.
Related terms: Taglibas Imelda
Doña Imelda
Araceli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: Meronyms: Balogo, Dagman, Dalayawon, Lumacad, Madoldolon, Mauringuen, Osmeña, Poblacion, San Jose De Oro, Santo Niño, Taloto, Tinintinan, Tudela — barangays of Araceli
glosses: A municipality of Palawan, Philippines.
interdigitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interdigitations
Etymology: From inter- + digitation, equivalent to interdigitate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: An interlinking that resembles the fingers of two hands being locked together.
interdigitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interdigitation
hyperpathia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An abnormally exaggerated response to a painful stimulus
Hyacinthus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌhaɪəˈsɪnθəs/
Forms: form: Hyacinth
Etymology: From Latin Hyacinthus, from Ancient Greek Ὑάκινθος (Huákinthos).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A Spartan youth loved and accidentally killed by Apollo. The flower hyacinth sprang from his blood.
Related terms: Hyacinthian
bossnappings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bossnapping
lockin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lockins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lock-in.
lockins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lockin
biologicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: biological products, such as antitoxins or vaccines, used to induce immunity
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: biological weapons
customerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more customerless
form: most customerless
Etymology: From customer + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The sullen clerk there did not return my greetings or my farewell, did not say a word, and did not show a single facial expression except irritation that I had interrupted his customerless routine.
ref: 2003, Paul Collins, Sixpence House, page 140:
text: He observed as the sad bartender ritually played canasta with two bored and customerless dancers...
ref: 2008, Rachel Kushner, Telex from Cuba:
glosses: Without any customers.
bradyarrhythmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bradyarrhythmias
Etymology: From brady- + arrhythmia.
Senses: examples: text: Typical nodal escapes occurring during sinus bradyarrhythmia, and subsequent to a nodal premature systole with retrograde A-V and aberrant ventricular conduction.
ref: 1956 May 1, Alfred Pick, “Aberrant Ventricular Conduction of Escaped Beats”, in Circulation:
text: It is our hypothesis that, since bradyarrhythmia seldom resolves spontaneously, the early decrease in survival represents the deaths of many patients with untreated bradycardia.
ref: 1973, Thomas B. Caldwell, Advances in respiratory care and physiology, page 287:
text: The term bradyarrhythmia should be reserved for any heart rhythm <60 bpm. Bradyarrhythmias may be associated with symptoms such as dizziness, near-syncope or syncope, congestive heart failure, exercise intolerance, fatigue, or a confusion that improves with resolution of the bradycardia.
ref: 2012, Eyal Herzog, The Cardiac Care Unit Survival Guide, page 155:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A combination of bradycardia and arrhythmia
telexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telex
telexes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of telex
telexing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of telex
telexed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of telex
bradyarrhythmias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bradyarrhythmia, which can refer to types of bradyarrhythmia, cases of bradyarrhythmia, or episodes of bradyarrhythmia.
tourist traps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tourist trap
bradycardic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bradycardic
form: most bradycardic
Etymology: From bradycardia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to or afflicted with bradycardia.
Derived terms: -bradine
bronchodilatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bronchodilatory
form: most bronchodilatory
Etymology: From broncho- + dilatory.
Senses: glosses: That acts as a bronchodilator.
cogwheeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cogwheel + -ing, from the jerkiness of motion.
Senses: glosses: Hypertonia.
hypotonias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypotonia
hypertonias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypertonia
bronchomalacia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From broncho- + malacia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A degeneration of the cartilaginous wall of the bronchus or trachea.
Derived terms: tracheobronchomalacia
thundermugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thundermug
cogwheeled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cogwheel + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The railway was cogwheeled and arranged in a series of six inclined planes which, in construction, bespeak considerable mechanical ingenuity...
ref: 1905, Frank Bestow Wiborg, A Commercial Traveller in South America:
text: As they approached, something whirred deep in its cogwheeled innards. The minute hand moved with a clonk, and shuddered to a halt on the 9.
ref: 2002, Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man:
glosses: Built or fitted with cogwheels.
paratonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paratonias
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of hypertonia with an involuntary variable resistance (i.e. reduced ability of a muscle to stretch) during passive movement.
Synonyms: gegenhalten
Derived terms: paratonic
paratonias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paratonia
thundermug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thundermugs
Etymology: From thunder + mug.
Senses: examples: text: "The dining-room ceiling was hand-painted and the staircase gigantic, yet the royal family used porcelain washbowls and old-fashioned thundermugs".
ref: 1944, Ernie Pyle, Brave Men, University of Nebraska Press, published 2001, page 80:
text: "No more midnight treks to the outhouse. No more close-stools or thundermugs a feature of even the most exalted houses in Armethalieh."
ref: 2003, Mercedes Lackey/James Mallory, The Outstretched Shadow:
glosses: chamber pot
Related terms: close-stool
chamber pot
jakes
paraplegias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paraplegia
diplegia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈpliːdʒə/
Forms: form: diplegias
Etymology: From di- + -plegia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Paralysis that affects symmetrically opposed parts of the body.
Derived terms: diplegic
diplegias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diplegia
EAZ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EAZs
Senses: examples: text: Excellence in Cities offers a further development of this approach, whereby secondary schools operate with small clusters of primaries as mini-EAZs.
ref: 2001, David Woods, Martyn Cribb, Effective LEAs and school improvement:
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of Education Action Zone, any of various areas of England considered for special assistance in increasing the quality or availability of educational opportunities, instituted by New Labour.
unblemishedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unblemishedly
form: most unblemishedly
Etymology: From unblemished + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unblemished way; without blemishes.
Synonyms: spotlessly
virginally
blemishless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blemishless
form: most blemishless
Etymology: From blemish + -less.
Senses: glosses: Unblemished; without blemishes.
Synonyms: spotless
Derived terms: blemishlessness
Stieglitz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stieglitzes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Stieglitz.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Stieglitz rearrangement
scobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scobes
Senses: glosses: A chav or ned; a delinquent.
tayga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of taiga.
famishedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more famishedly
form: most famishedly
Etymology: From famished + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a famished way; very hungrily.
Brown HT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A brown synthetic coal tar diazo dye.
Synonyms: topics: chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: E155
topics: chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: Chocolate Brown HT
topics: chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: Food Brown 3
home teacher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home teachers
Senses: examples: text: Each pair of home teachers should become [personally] acquainted with every child, youth and adult in the family to whom they are assigned.
ref: 1987, Ezra Taft Benson, quoting Marion G. Romney, “To the Home Teachers of the Church”, in Ensign, number May, retrieved 07 May 2009, page 48:
glosses: A person who home teaches or one who has a home teaching assignment.
crocotta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crocottas
form: corocotta
form: crocuta
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κροκόττας (krokóttas, “crocotta”, first attested in Strabo's Geographica), which may have been borrowed from Sanskrit.
Senses: glosses: A mythical dog-wolf of India or Ethiopia, said to be a deadly enemy of men and dogs and able to imitate the voice of any animal or human.
wikipedia: Geographica
Strabo
Synonyms: yena
crocottas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crocotta
corocotta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corocottas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crocotta.
crocuta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crocutas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crocotta.
crocutas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crocuta
home teachers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of home teacher
corocottas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corocotta
leucrota
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leucrotas
form: leocrocotta
form: leucrocotta
form: leucrocuta
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The offspring of a crocotta and a lion, supposed to be able to imitate the sound of a human voice.