cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
overshade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overshades
form: overshading
form: overshaded
form: overshaded
Etymology: From over- + shade.
Senses: examples: text: as a veil, / Waved and o'ershading her wan cheek, appears / Her streaming hair [...].
ref: 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, section I:
glosses: To cast a shadow over, to overshadow.
kanoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kanoon
caveas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cavea
kanuns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kanun
canun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canuns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of qanun.
canuns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canun
qanun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qanuns
form: canon
form: canun
form: kanoon
form: kanon
form: kanun
form: qanon
form: qanoon
form: ganoun
Etymology: From Turkish kanun, from Ottoman Turkish قانون (kanun), from Arabic قَانُون (qānūn), from Ancient Greek κανών (kanṓn). Doublet of canon.
Senses: examples: text: WISPS of mournful tunes from a cane flute mingled with the plucking, jangling arabesques of the zitherlike qanun, the oud and gentle drums.
ref: 2009 June 21, Daniel J. Wakin, “Ensemble Ambitions in a World Divided”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A Near Eastern and Caucasian musical instrument related to the zither, dulcimer, or harp having either 26 strings and a single bridge, or 42 strings and two bridges.
Derived terms: qanunist
qanuns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qanun
taces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tace
augerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: augerers
Etymology: From auger + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who uses an auger (boring tool).
subrident
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subrident
form: most subrident
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin subrīdēns, subrīdentem (“smiling”), from Latin subrīdeō (“to smile”).
Senses: examples: text: In 1852 a correspondent to Notes and Queries recalled having heard many years before (as usual from somebody whose name he had forgotten) that the Cheshire Cat owed its origin to the unhappy attempts of a sign-painter of that county to represent a lion rampant, which was the crest of an influential family, on the sign-boards of many of the inns. The lion was presumably depicted heraldically subrident.
ref: 1980, Philip Howard, Words Fail Me, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 1981, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: Characterized by a smile; smiling.
Related terms: subride
subrision
subrisive
subrisory
sigma-algebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sigma-algebras
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of σ-algebra
Geddes Axe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sir Eric Geddes, who chaired a UK government committee charged with finding unprecedented spending cuts in the 1920s.
Senses: examples: text: The necessity for its maker, if he wishes to remain in business, to produce an efficient machine which shall at the same time be cheap, and therefore must be as simple as possible, has acted as a kind of "Geddes' Axe," (sic) sweeping away a number of inessential contrivances […]
ref: 1923, Rupert T. Gould, The Marine Chronometer, Holland Press, published 1960, page 209:
glosses: Any process tending to eliminate non-essential elements
wikipedia: Eric Geddes
Khurrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Khurrites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hurrian.
Khurrite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Khurrite
form: most Khurrite
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hurrian.
Khurrite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hurrian.
Khurrites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Khurrite
open interval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open intervals
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An interval in the real number line which does not contain its supremum and infimum. If specified by a pair of real numbers, then it consists of all the points on the real line whose values lie strictly between those two real numbers.
Hypernyms: interval
open rectangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open rectangles
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A rectangle in the real plane which is an open set: i.e., which does not contain its edges. If the sides of the open rectangle are parallel to the plane's axes, then the open rectangle can be described as the Cartesian product of two open intervals.
Meronyms: open interval
nine days' wonder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: nine days' wonders
Senses: examples: text: The pleasant scandal which arose next day, / The nine days' wonder which was brought to light, / And how Alfonso sued for a divorce, / Were in the English newspapers, of course.
ref: 1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto I, stanza CLXXXVIII, page 97:
text: Everybody else was thinking of his breakdown; some with real sorrow and sympathy; others as of any other nine-days' wonder,—pretty much as if the favorite for the Derby had broken down; others with ill-concealed triumph, for Blake had many enemies amongst the men.
ref: 1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], “The Schools”, in Tom Brown at Oxford: […], part 2nd, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC, page 6:
text: As the matter is to be a "nine days' wonder," they are evidently determined that there shall be no cause of after complaint.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, “Cutting from ‘The Dailygraph,’ 8 August (Pasted in Mina Murray’s Journal.) From a Correspondent.”, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC, chapter VII, page 89:
text: In his letter to this journal Mr. Lawrence remarked that some traders were waiting to see if "Condor" was merely a nine days' wonder before scheduling its use by their goods.
ref: 1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “‘Condor’—British Railways’ Fastest Freight Train”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 47:
glosses: Alternative form of nine day wonder.
real plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: real planes
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: The Cartesian product of two real lines.
Hypernyms: plane
Meronyms: real line
Related terms: complex plane
harshlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: comparative form of harshly: more harshly
harshliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: superlative form of harshly: most harshly
fetii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A pluralisation of fetus by erroneous analogy with words like radii and gladii; compare penii and see the usage note below.
Senses: examples: text: The hypocrisy was in the Roe decision. Blackmun basically said that fetii have no rights granted by the Constitution, but proceeded to give them rights. If he truly believed that the Constitution gives fetii no rights, why then proceed to give them the little protection he did?
ref: 1994 May 30, Ralph D. Taite, “Re: Responsibility”, in talk.abortion (Usenet):
text: On the subject of dead fetii in party hats: I’ve posted this link before, but it seems more “born still angles [sic]” have been added to the collection. The first one (looks like Yoda, clasping a teddy bear) has passed its sell-by date and has grown moldy. Not for the weak of stomach.
ref: 2002 May 17, Jadite, “SQUICK: Auntie Moo and more dolled-up fetii”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):
text: I have posted a picture of the properly assembled centerpiece on ABPT. I must admit, putting it back together Scopata’s way is nicer, the lights give all the fetii a pale pink fetusy look. Much better!
ref: 2004 January 1, Dan Drake, “Re: TSS gift report”, in alt.tasteless (Usenet):
glosses: Misconstructed plural form of fetus (the standard plural is fetuses).
scalariform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin scala (“ladder”), + -form.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a ladder
selectee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selectees
Etymology: From select + -ee.
Senses: glosses: A person who is selected.
settleable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more settleable
form: most settleable
Etymology: From settle + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can settle or be settled.
settleable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: settleables
Etymology: From settle + -able.
Senses: glosses: Something that can settle.
slightish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From slight + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat slight
talkee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talkees
Etymology: From talk + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: What you type gets sent across the network immediately. That means your talkee sees exactly what you type, including mistakes and "mistalks," so think before you type!
ref: 1995, Marshall Wilensky, Candace Leiden, TCP/IP for Dummies, page 97:
glosses: A person who is talked to (or at)
Related terms: talkee-talkee
tennantite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tennantites
Etymology: Originally named "gray sulphuret of copper in dodecahedral crystals" in 1817 by mineralogist James Sowerby.
Renamed in 1819 by William Phillips in honour of Smithson Tennant (1761-1815), an English chemist who discovered the elements iridium and osmium.
Tennant + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A sulfide mineral of iron, copper and arsenic that is an ore of copper
theatricalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theatricalisms
Etymology: From theatrical + -ism.
Senses: glosses: theatrical style or behaviour
theatricalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theatricalizations
Etymology: From theatrical + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act, or the result, of theatricalizing
tostone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tostones
Etymology: From Spanish tostón, probably as a back-formation from the plural, tostones. Tostón is from tostar (“to toast”).
Senses: glosses: A Mexican dish of fried, sliced unripe plantain.
understater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: understaters
Etymology: From understate + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who understates
unordinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unordinary
form: most unordinary
Etymology: From un- + ordinary.
Senses: glosses: Not ordinary.
unwooded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + wooded.
Senses: glosses: Not wooded.
Related terms: unoaked
characteristic function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: characteristic functions
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function which is equal to 1 for all points in its domain which belong to a given set, and is equal to 0 for all points in the domain which do not belong to that given set.
topics: mathematics
probability-theory
sciences
glosses: A complex function completely defining the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable
Synonyms: sense: function equal to 1 on elements of a given set
word: indicator function
Hypernyms: function
Hyponyms: point characteristic function
Related terms: subset classifier
viropexis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The process whereby certain viruses become attached to a cell surface membrane and are incorporated into the host cell.
burglariously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more burglariously
form: most burglariously
Etymology: From burglarious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: John Hornby was committed on Monday last to Newgate by Justice Ward, for Burglariously entering the House of a Watchmaker in Essex-street and feloniously stealing thence seven Watches; […]
ref: 1728 April 18, “Saturday's Post: From the New London Evening Post, April 11: London, April 11”, in The British Spy: Or, Derby Post-Man, volume 1, number 40, page 1:
text: Cheops erected the first Pyramid / And largest, thinking it was just the thing / To keep his memory whole, and mummy hid; / But somebody or other rummaging, / Burglariously broke his coffin's lid […]
ref: 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I.219:
text: On Wednesday night two rascals burglariously entered the residence of a Mr. M'Knight, on Stanwix street, near the Point, by forcing open the back door.
ref: 1853 November 21, “Daring Outrage”, in The Daily Pittsburgh Gazette, page 3:
text: […] then and there feloniously and burglariously did steal, take and carry away.
ref: 1914, Arthur Percival Will, Standard Encyclopædia of Procedure, page 243:
text: Under Rev. St. 1900, § 4528, permitting a charge both of burglary and larceny, when the larceny is committed at the time of the burglary in the building burglariously entered, to be joined in the same count of an information […]
ref: 1915, “STATE v. BURNS”, in The Southwestern Reporter, volume 173, page 1070:
topics: law
glosses: As a burglar; in order to burgle.
webworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: webworms
form: web worm
Etymology: From web + worm.
Senses: glosses: Any of various caterpillars, of diverse moth families, that spin a web; the moth species of such a caterpillar.
Derived terms: english: Atteva aurea: family Attevidae
translation: Atteva aurea: family Attevidae
word: ailanthus webworm
english: Loxostege commixtalis: Crambidae
translation: Loxostege commixtalis: Crambidae
word: alfalfa webworm
english: Spoladea recurvalis: family Crambidae
translation: Spoladea recurvalis: family Crambidae
word: beet webworm
english: Hellula rogatalis: family Crambidae
translation: Hellula rogatalis: family Crambidae
taxonomic: Hellula undalis
word: cabbage webworm
english: Neodactria caliginosellus: family Crambidae
translation: Neodactria caliginosellus: family Crambidae
word: corn root webworm
english: Athrips rancidella: family Gelechiidae
translation: Athrips rancidella: family Gelechiidae
word: cotoneaster webworm
english: Hyphantria cunea: family Erebidae
translation: Hyphantria cunea: family Erebidae
word: fall webworm
english: Aristotelia roseosuffusella: family Gelechiidae
translation: Aristotelia roseosuffusella: family Gelechiidae
word: garden webworm
english: Calamotropha leptogrammellus: family Crambidae
translation: Calamotropha leptogrammellus: family Crambidae
word: grass webworm
english: Spoladea recurvalis: family Crambidae
translation: Spoladea recurvalis: family Crambidae
word: Hawaiian beet webworm
english: Aethes rutilana: family Tortricidae
translation: Aethes rutilana: family Tortricidae
word: juniper webworm
english: Homadaula anisocentra: family Galacticidae
translation: Homadaula anisocentra: family Galacticidae
word: mimosa webworm
english: Archips fervidana: family Tortricidae
translation: Archips fervidana: family Tortricidae
word: oak webworm
english: Hellula undalis: family Crambidae
translation: Hellula undalis: family Crambidae
word: Old World webworm
english: Dichomeris citrifoliella: family Gelechiidae
translation: Dichomeris citrifoliella: family Gelechiidae
word: orange webworm
english: Aethes rutilana: family Tortricidae
translation: Aethes rutilana: family Tortricidae
word: pale juniper webworm
alt: Davara caricae: family: Tortricidae
word: papaya webworm
english: Depressaria radiella: family Oecophoridae
translation: Depressaria radiella: family Oecophoridae
word: parsnip webworm
english: Hednota longipalpella: family Crambidae
translation: Hednota longipalpella: family Crambidae
word: pasture webworm
english: Acantholyda erythrocephala: family Pamphiliidae
translation: Acantholyda erythrocephala: family Pamphiliidae
word: pine false webworm
alt: Pococera robustella: family Pyralidae
word: pine webworm
english: Crambus and Herpetogramma spp.: family Crambidae
translation: Crambus and Herpetogramma spp.: family Crambidae
word: sod webworm
alt: Nola cereella: famiy Nolidae
word: sorghum webworm
english: Herpetogramma licarsisalis: family Crambidae
translation: Herpetogramma licarsisalis: family Crambidae
word: tropical grass webworm
word: turf webworm
word: webworm moth
Sylheti
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪlˈhɛti/
Etymology: From Sylhet + -i. Compare সিলেটি (śileṭi), سِلْهَتِيّ (silhatiyy), ꠍꠤꠟꠐꠤ (síloṭi).
Senses: glosses: Of, from or pertaining to Sylhet
Derived terms: non-Sylheti
Sylheti Cockney
Sylheti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪlˈhɛti/
Forms: form: Sylhetis
form: Sylheti
Etymology: From Sylhet + -i. Compare সিলেটি (śileṭi), سِلْهَتِيّ (silhatiyy), ꠍꠤꠟꠐꠤ (síloṭi).
Senses: glosses: A member of an Indo-Aryan ethnocultural group associated with the Sylhet region in South Asia.
Sylheti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪlˈhɛti/
Etymology: From Sylhet + -i. Compare সিলেটি (śileṭi), سِلْهَتِيّ (silhatiyy), ꠍꠤꠟꠐꠤ (síloṭi).
Senses: synonyms: Sylheti Bengali
glosses: A language or a dialect of Bengali spoken in the Sylhet Division of north-eastern Bangladesh, the Barak Valley of the Indian state of Assam and some parts of the Indian state of Tripura.
Related terms: syl ⁠
supples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of supple
supplete
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: suppletes
form: suppleting
form: suppleted
form: suppleted
Senses: glosses: To supplement, especially in terms of grammatical suppletion.
implete
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: impletes
form: impleting
form: impleted
form: impleted
Senses: examples: text: We see how Christ operates over the cosmos to save all men for all time through His power to envelope (contain) all space and to implete (fill) all space.
ref: 2002, Ronald F. Avery, Alien Physics: The Physical Operation Performed Upon the Cosmos, page 163:
glosses: To fill.
Related terms: impletion
inventrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭnvĕnʹtrĭks
ipa: /ɪnˈvɛntɹɪks/
Forms: form: inventrices
form: inuentrix
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin inventrīx. By surface analysis, inventor + -trix.
Senses: examples: text: Trouveuſe: f. An inventrix; or a woman that findeth out.
ref: 1673, Randle Cotgrave, “Trouveuſe”, in A French and English Dictionary:
text: Two proletariat inventrices on the way to an inventor’s congress
ref: 1997, Angelika Taschen, Roberto Ohrt, Burkhard Riemschneider, editors, Kippenberger, Taschen, →ISBN, page 218, →ISBN:
glosses: A female that invents.
Synonyms: inventress
Coordinate terms: inventor
inventrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭnvĕnʹtrĭsēz
ipa: /ɪnˈvɛntɹɪsiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of inventrix
inuentrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of inventrix.
admoves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of admove
admove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: admoves
form: admoving
form: admoved
form: admoved
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin admoveō (“I move, bring, conduct, lead, or carry someone or something to or toward”).
Senses: examples: text: Thus if unto the powder of Loadstone or Iron we admove the North pole of the Loadstone, the powders or small divisions will erect and conform themselves thereto: but if the South pole approach, they will subside, and inverting their bodies respect the Loadstone with the other extream.
ref: 1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
glosses: To move toward.
Borel σ-algebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Borel σ-algebras
Etymology: Named after French mathematician Émile Borel (1871–1956), who pioneered measure theory.
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
hypernyms: σ-algebra
meronyms: Borel set
topology
glosses: The smallest σ-algebra which contains the topology of a given topological space.
Related terms: Borel measure
Borel set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Borel sets
Etymology: Named after Émile Borel.
Senses: examples: text: A Lebesgue measurable set is expressible as a union of a Borel set and a Lebesgue null set.
topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of the members of a Borel σ-algebra.
wikipedia: Émile Borel
Hyponyms: Fσ
Gδ
Related terms: borelian
emoves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of emove
emove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -uːv
Forms: form: emoves
form: emoving
form: emoved
form: emoved
Etymology: Borrowed into Middle English from Old French esmouvoir, from classical Latin ēmoveō; see emotion.
Senses: examples: text: What brought you to this Seat of Peace and Love?
While with kind Nature, here amid the Grove,
We pass’d the harmless Sabbath of our Time,
What to disturb it could, fell Men, emove
Your barbarous Hearts? Is Happiness a Crime?
ref: 1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence, L:LXVI:
glosses: To stir or arouse emotion in (someone); to cause to feel emotion.
WGARA
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: First of all if a mechanical engineer can input 1 watt and output 4 watts it is a WGARA (who gives a rat's a--) as to whether its fusion or not.
ref: 1989, fusion, “Submission for Alt.fusion”, in alt.fusion (Usenet):
glosses: Initialism of who gives a rat's ass?.
half-open interval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-open intervals
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An interval in the real line which contains one of its endpoints but not the other one: i.e., it either contains its supremum or its infimum but not both.
Hypernyms: interval
Related terms: open interval
closed interval
transmoves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transmove
Borel measurable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Continuous functions are Borel measurable.
topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Such that the inverse image of any open set in its codomain is a Borel set of its domain.
raw_tags: of a function
wikipedia: Émile Borel
Related terms: Borel function
transmove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transmoves
form: transmoving
form: transmoved
form: transmoved
Etymology: From trans- + move.
Senses: examples: text: That to a centaure did himselfe transmove
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: The spring-time sky above their head, / Whose island clouds the breezes led / To far-off, western, boundless plain / And there transmoved to needed rain; […]
ref: 1887(?), "Verses commemorating the Death of Marquette, May 18, 1675", in United States Catholic Historical Magazine, page 413
text: The emphasis throughout these ekphrastic stanzas on a god's transforming or "transmoving" himself into a bestial form in order to embrace a beloved mortal woman might usefully be glossed by Ficino's central statement about the conditions that create melancholic love : […]
ref: 2007 January 3, Marion Wells, The Secret Wound: Love-Melancholy and Early Modern Romance, page 249:
text: Time's of the essence, get a move / on, to this state of bliss - transmove.
ref: 2024 July 7, Mary Mallia, A Return to the Heart of Love A Collection of Poems, #1, Mary Mallia, →ISBN:
glosses: To move or change from one state into another; to transform.
come to blows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes to blows
form: coming to blows
form: came to blows
form: come to blows
Senses: examples: text: I'll follow you, Floating Tom, into the Mingo camp, on such an arr'nd, and will strive to do my duty, should we come to blows; though, never having been tried in battle, I don't like to promise more than I may be able to perform.
ref: 1841, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 6, in The Deerslayer:
text: [T]here is a variety of drunkenness. . . . Some stagger about in each other's arms, whispering maudlin words—others start quarrels upon the slightest pretext, and come to blows and have to be pulled apart.
ref: 1905 April–October, Upton Sinclair, chapter I, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, →OCLC:
text: The argument grew heated and teammates grabbed the pair to prevent them from coming to blows.
ref: 1966 September 9, “LA Jumpy? Two Stars Near Blows”, in Milwaukee Sentinel, USA, retrieved 29 Aug 2010:
text: Iraqi security forces and peshmerga almost came to blows in the disputed area of Khanaqin, in Diyala province, after Iraqi troops tried to enter the mixed town.
ref: 2009 March 24, Rania Abouzeid, “Arab-Kurd Tensions Could Threaten Iraq's Peace”, in Time:
glosses: To fight; to initiate physical conflict, especially subsequent to escalating tension or antagonism.
examples: text: They exchanged insults, without it coming to blows.
glosses: To degrade into a fight or physical conflict (in reference to an argument or to a situation of tension or antagonism).
Synonyms: come to grips
duke it out
Related terms: throw hands
Borel function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Borel functions
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function which is Borel measurable.
wikipedia: Émile Borel
Hypernyms: function
Morgellons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔː(ɹ)ˈd͡ʒɛlənz/
ipa: /mɔɹˈd͡ʒɛlənz/
ipa: /mɔɹˈɡɛlənz/
Etymology: Coined in 2004 by Mary Leitao after a description of an illness in Thomas Browne's A Letter to a Friend (c. 1656, pub. 1690), “that Endemial Distemper of little Children in Languedock, called the Morgellons, wherein they critically break out with harsh Hairs on their Backs”, apparently a corruption of Masquelons, from Provençal masclous (“little flies”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An unproven skin disorder, usually thought to be delusional parasitosis, characterized by skin lesions in which fibers are found.
examples: text: But Hairs make fallible Predictions, and many Temples early gray have out-lived the Psalmist's Period. Hairs which have most amused me have not been in the Face or Head, but on the Back, and not in Men but Children, as I long ago observed in that Endemial Distemper of little Children in Languedock, called the Morgellons, wherein they critically break out with harsh Hairs on their Backs, which takes off the Unquiet Symptomes of the Disease, and delivers them from Coughs and Convulsions.
ref: 1690, Thomas Browne, A Letter to a Friend:
glosses: A disease causing hairs to grow on the backs of children.
Synonyms: sense: skin disorder with fibers
word: Morgellons disease
sense: skin disorder with fibers
word: Morgellons syndrome
foot soldiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foot soldier
Pacific silver fir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pacific silver firs
Senses: glosses: A fir native to the coastal region of Pacific North America (Abies amabilis).
white fir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white firs
Senses: glosses: A North American species of fir tree (Abies concolor).
Synonyms: sense: Abies concolor
word: Colorado white fir
sense: Abies concolor
word: concolor fir
sense: Abies concolor
word: Colorado fir
Fraser fir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fraser firs
Etymology: Named after the Scottish botanist John Fraser (1750–1811), who made numerous botanical collections in the region.
Senses: glosses: A North American species of fir tree (Abies fraseri).
defleas
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deflea
white firs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white fir
Fraser firs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fraser fir
arrides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of arride
attines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attine
attine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Belonging to the Attini tribe of fungus-growing ants
Derived terms: neoattine
paleoattine
attine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attines
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any ant of the Attini tribe.
devotos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devoto
Elam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈiːləm/
/ɛˈlɑːm/
Etymology: Etymology tree
Elamite 𒄬𒆷𒁶𒋾 (ḫalˡᵃ-tam₆-ti /⁠haltamti⁠/)bor.
Sumerian 𒉏𒆠 (elamᵏⁱ /⁠Elam⁠/)bor.
Akkadian 𒉏𒈠𒆠 (Elamtu)bor.
Hebrew עֵילָם (ʿêlām)bor.
English Elam
Borrowed from Hebrew עֵילָם (ʿêlām), borrowed from Akkadian 𒉏𒈠𒆠 (Elamtu), borrowed from Sumerian 𒉏𒆠 (elamᵏⁱ /⁠Elam⁠/), borrowed from Elamite 𒄬𒆷𒁶𒋾 (ḫalˡᵃ-tam₆-ti /⁠haltamti⁠/).
Senses: synonyms: Susiana
glosses: An ancient civilization and empire in modern southwestern Iran, existing between c. 3200 BCE and 539 BCE. Capital: Susa.
Derived terms: Elamite
Elamo-
Elamo-Dravidian
Related terms: Susa
Elam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈiːləm/
/ɛˈlɑːm/
Forms: form: Elem
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Elam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈiːləm/
/ɛˈlɑːm/
Etymology: Borrowed from Manipuri ꯑꯦꯂꯥꯝ (ʼelām).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Elamcha
Susa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsuːzə/
/ˈsuːsə/
Etymology: From Latin Sūsa, from Ancient Greek Σοῦσα (Soûsa), from Old Persian 𐏂𐎢𐏁𐎠 (çūšā), from Elamite 𒀸𒋗𒊺𒂗 (šušen). Doublet of Sus and Shush.
Senses: glosses: An ancient city, which became the capital of Elam, the Persian Empire, the Seleucid Empire and the Parthian Empire, now known as Shush in modern-day Khuzestan Province, Iran.
Derived terms: Susian
penningar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penning
simple functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of simple function
sustinent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Serving to sustain; offering sustenance.
hooktop heng
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Created by Geoffrey K. Pullum in 1986 by modifying the name of the visually similar heng
Senses: glosses: A character (ɧ) used for the sound used in some dialects of Swedish that resembles both IPA x and ʃ.
vice presidencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vice presidency
vice-presidencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vice-presidency
varder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: varders
form: vardering
form: vardered
form: vardered
Senses: examples: text: And then, sometimes the blinds is all drawed down, on account of the sun, and that cooks our goose; or, it's too hot for people to stop and varder—that means, see.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Our Street Folk”, in London Labour and the London Poor, volume 3, published 1861, The History of Punch, page 50:
text: Will you take a varder at the cartz on the feely-omi in the naf strides: the one with the bona blue ogles polarying the omi-palone with a vogue on and a cod sheitel.
ref: 1997, James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 137:
glosses: Alternative spelling of vada (“to see”).
Archimedean property
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Archimedean properties
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A property of the set of real numbers, that for any real number there is always a natural number greater than that real number.
orter
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: "I orter ha' warned you," said Dan.
ref: 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:
glosses: Contraction of ought to.
laggar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laggars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lugger (“type of falcon”).
countably additive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a measure: that satisfies countable additivity.
positive measure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: positive measures
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function whose domain is a σ-algebra, whose codomain is [0,∞], and which is countably additive.
Hypernyms: measure
Hyponyms: complete measure > Lebesgue–Stieltjes measure > Lebesgue measure
counting measure
retorque
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retorques
form: retorquing
form: retorqued
form: retorqued
Etymology: From re- + torque.
Senses: examples: text: In T.S.B. 09-028 issued on May 2, Honda says the noise, which comes at slow speeds, may be from incorrectly torqued mounting bolts, which need to be retorqued.
ref: 2009 July 26, Scott Sturgis, “The Ghost in the Infiniti”, in New York Times:
glosses: To torque again or anew.
glosses: To turn back.
complex measure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: complex measures
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function whose domain is a σ-algebra, whose codomain is the set of complex numbers, and which is countably additive.
Hypernyms: measure
measurable sets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of measurable set
viner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viners
Etymology: From Middle English vynour, from Old French vignor. By surface analysis, vine + -er.
Senses: glosses: A winegrower.
counting measure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counting measures
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A positive measure which, for each subset of a given measure space, assigns a value equal to the number of points in that subset.
Hypernyms: positive measure
kakie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kakies
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans [Term?], after the khaki colour of the British uniforms.
Senses: glosses: An English soldier in the Boer war.
barrel shroud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrel shrouds
Senses: glosses: A ventilated covering for the barrel of a firearm that prevents accidental burns to the operators
aren'chu
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: enpr: ärncho͞oʹ
ipa: /ɑːnˈtʃuː/
Forms: form: aren’chu
Etymology: The [ɑːnˈtjuː] of aren't you is pronounced [ɑːnˈtʃuː] by some speakers; the (always prevocalic) combination [tj] often becomes [tʃ]; aren't + -chu.
Senses: examples: text: “You’re reg’lar gen’man ‛bout it, aren’chu?”
ref: 1956, John G. Burnett, Company Man, Harper, page 132:
text: “Aren’chu gonna kiss me good night?”
ref: 1994, Abraham Rodriguez, Spidertown, Penguin Books, page 259:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of aren’t you.
plus ones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plus one
flash suppressor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flash suppressors
Senses: glosses: An attachment to the muzzle of a firearm which reduces the amount of visible light created when fired
ordered field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ordered fields
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A field which has an order relation satisfying these properties: trichotomy, transitivity, preservation of an inequality when the same element is added to both sides, and preservation of an inequality when the same strictly positive element is multiplied to both sides.
Hypernyms: field
ordered integral domain
Hyponyms: real number system
Archimedean ordered field
Euclidean field
completeness axiom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: completeness axioms
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The following axiom (applied to an ordered field): for any subset of the given ordered field, if there is any upper bound for this subset, then there is also a supremum for this subset, and this supremum is an element of the given ordered field (though not necessarily of the subset).
Hypernyms: axiom
gravitationally challenged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gravitationally challenged
form: most gravitationally challenged
form: gravitationally-challenged
Etymology: An ironic imitation of the perceived oversensitivity of language like mentally challenged.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he chunky Mr. Ackerman took to the stage. First he told fat jokes. . . . "I'm not fat. I'm gravitationally challenged."
ref: 1996 March 3, Diane Ketcham, “Long Island Journal”, in New York Times, retrieved 29 Aug 2010:
text: In America fat is the new f-word—instead, it's nutritionally endowed, or person of mass, or gravitationally challenged.
ref: 2002 July 6, Tania Kindersley, “A job for nanny”, in spectator.co.uk, retrieved 29 Aug 2010:
glosses: Fat.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: Consider that the person asking is Mr. Bean, the diminutive, awkward, gravitationally challenged, accident-prone incarnation served up by Rowan Atkinson.
ref: 2003 July 18, Leonard Klady, “MCM Review: Johnny English”, in Movie City News, retrieved 29 Aug 2010:
glosses: Of a person, having a poor sense of balance; subject to intervals of dizziness.
Synonyms: sense: fat
word: horizontally challenged
Related terms: ethically challenged
vertically challenged
living impaired
-iasis
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: -aɪəsɪs
Forms: form: -iases
Etymology: A Latin word-forming element meaning "process" or "morbid condition". Originally from Ancient Greek ἴασις (íasis). By surface analysis, -i- + -asis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A pathological condition or process.
Synonyms: -osis
Related terms: lithiasis
psoriasis
-itis
upper limit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upper limits
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The upper limit of a sequence of real numbers is the real number which can be found as follows: remove the first term of the sequence in order to obtain the "first subsequence." Then remove the first term of the first subsequence in order to obtain the "second subsequence." Repeat the removal of first terms in order to obtain a "third subsequence," "fourth subsequence," etc. Find the supremum of each of these subsequences, then find the infimum of all of these supremums. This infimum is the upper limit.
Synonyms: limit superior
lower limit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lower limits
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The lower limit of a sequence of real numbers is the real number which can be found as follows: remove the first term of the sequence in order to obtain the "first subsequence." Then remove the first term of the first subsequence in order to obtain the "second subsequence." Repeat the removal of first terms in order to obtain a "third subsequence," "fourth subsequence," etc. Find the infimum of each of these subsequences, then find the supremum of all of these infimums. This supremum is the lower limit.
Synonyms: limit inferior
freedom rider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹiːdəm ˌɹaɪdə/
ipa: /ˈfɹidəm ˌɹaɪdɚ/
Forms: form: freedom riders
Etymology: From freedom ride + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A Negro leader said today the "freedom riders" whose arrival here touched off race riots last Saturday will continue their test of Southern bus station segregation barriers. [...] [T]he Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. [...] told a news conference the group met for four hours last night and decided that "the freedom ride must continue, we will not specify the exact time, but it will continue."
ref: 1961 May 23, “‘Freedom ride’ must continue—Rev. King”, in Sarasota Journal, volume 10, number 27, Sarasota, Fla.: Lindsay Newspapers, →OCLC, page 2, column 7:
topics: government
politics
glosses: In the United States during 1961, a civil rights activist who participated in one or more trips by bus or other forms of transport, known as freedom rides, through parts of the southern U.S. to demonstrate opposition to racial prejudice and segregation.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A participant in a similar excursion undertaken by protesters in Australia in 1965 in opposition to unfair discrimination against Indigenous Australians.
Hypernyms: desegregationist
Related terms: desegregation
Jim Crow
racial integration
resorbent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more resorbent
form: most resorbent
Etymology: From Latin resorbens, present participle of resorbere.
Senses: examples: text: Again resorbent ocean's wave / Demands the waters which it gave / From thousand rills with copious currents fraught.
ref: 1760, Michael Wodhull, Ode to the Muses:
glosses: swallowing up
big-breasted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more big-breasted
form: most big-breasted
Senses: synonyms: bosomy
busty
glosses: Having large breasts.
exterge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exterges
form: exterging
form: exterged
form: exterged
Senses: examples: text: Medicks prescribe Dentifricies to exterge and dealbate the teeth
ref: 1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory:
glosses: to clean
supersederes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supersedere
depletor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depletors
Senses: glosses: A thing that depletes
opplete
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more opplete
form: most opplete
Etymology: From Latin opplētus, perfect passive participle of oppleō (“to fill”).
Senses: examples: text: So opplete with imperfection.
ref: 1825, Samuel Oliver, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: full; crowded
repleat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repleats
form: repleating
form: repleated
form: repleated
Etymology: From re- + pleat.
Senses: glosses: To pleat again.
demulce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: demulces
form: demulcing
form: demulced
form: demulced
Etymology: From Latin demulceo (“I soothe”); de + mulceo (“I stroke”).
Senses: examples: text: Saturne was eftsones demulced
ref: 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:
glosses: To soothe, assuage, pacify or soften.
colorspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colorspaces
form: colourspace
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of color space.
color space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: color spaces
form: colorspace
form: colourspace
form: colour space
Senses: glosses: A numerical representation of all the possible colors/colours in a particular display or printing system.
extremally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From extremal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: To an extremal extent
hemiequilateral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemi- + equilateral.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing the shape of a triangle formed by cutting an equilateral triangle in half through one of the apices
percies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of percy
nanocoated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nano- + coated.
Senses: glosses: Coated with a nanomaterial (or with a nanolayer of material).
noncommutativities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncommutativity
emulges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of emulge
pseudoharmonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + harmonic.
Senses: glosses: Having the appearance of being harmonic.
emulgent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin emulgens, present participle of emulgere (“to milk out”); so called because the kidney was regarded by the ancients as straining out the serum, as if by milking, and so producing the urine.
Senses: glosses: Of a straining or purifying process.
examples: text: By the motion of the Heart, through the Emulgent Branches, the Blood is brought to the Kidneys, and is there freed of its Serum by their little Glands, […]
ref: 1705, George Cheyne, “Of the Existence of a Deity”, in Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion: […], London: Printed for George Strahan […], →OCLC, § XXXV, page 213:
text: ...the kidneys, plac'd at the extremities of two large blood-vessels, the emulgent vein and artery, derived from the great vein and artery, very soon after their parting at the heart, the fountain of circulation.
ref: 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, page 49:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of the renal arteries and veins.
emulgent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emulgents
Etymology: From Latin emulgens, present participle of emulgere (“to milk out”); so called because the kidney was regarded by the ancients as straining out the serum, as if by milking, and so producing the urine.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A substance promoting bile or urine production
glosses: A renal artery or vein.
agism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agisms
Etymology: From age + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Although there is no doubt that some agisms are intended as hostile intergroup moves and divergences, there is a great deal of well-intentioned agism.
ref: 2013, Angie Williams, Jon F. Nussbaum, Intergenerational Communication Across the Life Span:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ageism (agism is less common and sometimes deprecated).
emulge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪˈmʌld͡ʒənt/
Forms: form: emulges
form: emulging
form: emulged
form: emulged
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin emulgeo, emulsum; e (“out”) + mulgeo (“to milk”); akin to English milk. See milk.
Senses: examples: text: the Water cannot so readily subside and fall downwards , it may be the more plentifully emulged into the Bowels, and so that way discharged, as I have sometimes experienced.
ref: 1701, Peter Paxton, An Essay concerning the Body of Man:
glosses: To milk out; to drain.
amitotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to amitosis
Derived terms: amitotically
amitosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amitoses
Etymology: From a- + mitosis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: cell division by cleavage of the nucleus without the formation of condensed chromosomes
studes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stude
anthelion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːliən
Forms: form: anthelions
form: anthelia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνθήλιον (anthḗlion); see anti-, helio-.
Senses: glosses: A faint, white halo rarely seen in the sky opposite the sun on the parhelic circle
Derived terms: paranthelion