cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
landside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landsides
Etymology: From land + -side.
Senses: coordinate_terms: ploughshare
mouldboard
coulter
glosses: The flat bottom part of a plough.
antonyms: airside
glosses: The freely-accessible area of an airport, outside of security, passport/immigration, and customs control.
Related terms: land
gallow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæləʊ/
rhymes: -æləʊ
Forms: form: gallows
form: gallowing
form: gallowed
form: gallowed
form: gally
Etymology: From Middle English *galowen (attested in begalewen (“to begallow”)), from Old English *gælwan (attested in āgælwed (“astonished; disconcerted”)).
Senses: examples: text: The wrathful skies / Gallow the very wanderers of the dark / And make them keep their caves.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: To frighten or terrify.
Related terms: gallow tree
gallows
reamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹi.məɹ/
rhymes: -iːmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: reamers
Etymology: From ream + -er.
Senses: examples: text: allowance at the bottom of blind bores for the chamfered tip of the reamer will obviate additional operations with shouldering or bottoming reamers to completely finish the entire length of a hole.
ref: 1977, Roger W. Autor Bolz, Production Processes: The Productivity Handbook, page 12-81:
glosses: A tool for boring a hole wider.
glosses: A device for rendering citrus juice.
glosses: A tool used to scrape carbon deposit from the bowl of a pipe.
glosses: A Stone Age prehistoric lithic stone tool, used in archeology nomenclature.
examples: text: “Just to be clear, old-timer, I'm not always the sucker, and he's not always the reamer.” “Though, he does ream me nightly.” “Adolfo, you dirty dog.”
ref: 2022 August 9, Ayo Edebiri & Shana Gohd, “Private School” (18:27 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 4, episode 5, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):
glosses: One who reams.
pother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌðə/
ipa: /ˈpɒðə/
rhymes: -ʌðə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɒðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pothers
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Compare Dutch peuteren (“to rummage, poke”), and English potter, pudder.
Senses: examples: text: Let the great gods, / That keep this dreadful pother o’er our heads, / Find out their enemies now.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: (name of the article) Flight Of Hess Causes Pother Among Germans
ref: 1941, Lewiston Morning Tribune, 14th of May
text: After some years there came a time when the Queen seemed to be ill and there was a great deal of bustle and pother about her in the castle and doctors came and the courtiers whispered.
ref: 1951, C. S. Lewis, chapter 5, in Prince Caspian, Collins, published 1998:
glosses: A commotion, a tempest.
pother
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌðə/
ipa: /ˈpɒðə/
rhymes: -ʌðə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɒðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pothers
form: pothering
form: pothered
form: pothered
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Compare Dutch peuteren (“to rummage, poke”), and English potter, pudder.
Senses: glosses: To make a bustle or stir; to be fussy.
glosses: To puzzle or perplex.
lardy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑɹdi/
ipa: /ˈlɑːdi/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)di
Forms: form: lardier
form: lardiest
Etymology: From lard + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or containing (perhaps an excess of) lard.
examples: text: Go back to snarfling down your microwave lasagna, you lardy bitch.
ref: 1997 August 14, The Prince of Lies, “ABOUT VIRGINIA'S PARENTIAL NOTICE LAW”, in talk.abortion (Usenet):
text: Look, Jeffy didn't start this, you lardy bitch. He tried to tell you.
ref: 1999 January 20, susanna9988, “Troll Striptease 7”, in alt.fan.karl-malden.nose (Usenet):
text: Well as you mentioned it. It's that fucking useless fat arse lardy bitch at Energis, you know the one who eats at [...]
ref: 2003 May 3, Fred, “Unwanted Emails!”, in alt.fan.scarecrow (Usenet):
glosses: Fat or overweight.
raw_tags: of a person or body part
Derived terms: lardiness
lardy bread
lardy cake
lardy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑɹdi/
ipa: /ˈlɑːdi/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)di
Forms: form: lardies
Etymology: From lard + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Funny Roseanne isn't kidding when she pushes for ladies to become lardies.
ref: 1989 February 14, Weekly World News, page 14:
text: You mentioned that your wife used to be a lardy and now she isn't. Did the pair of you train and diet together or was her approach more the weight watchers, slow pace jogging type?
ref: 2003 July 8, NMcD32, “Help Needed ! ! ! Please Help”, in uk.rec.bodybuilding (Usenet):
text: And as for the equipment they use, let's just say that Lance Armstrong won't be winning the Tour de France on one. In fact he probably wouldn't be able to turn the pedals, especially with a couple of lardies like us in the back, [...]
ref: 2004, Warwick Allen, Sweat, page 286:
glosses: An obese person.
examples: text: ‘A bloomer, a Hovis, thank you, that's all ... oh, and put in a couple of lardies.’ Naturally, home-made lardy cake is even feggier than the baker’s. His aim is to put in as little lard, fruit and sugar as he can get away with: yours is, or should be, to cram in as much as possible.
ref: 1985, Jane Grigson, Jane Grigson's British cookery, page 32:
text: >Hmmm. American food is sugary? Not as sugary as the stuff they sell at
>Somerfield's and Sainsbury's and ASDA--whole aisles of cookies and tea
>biscuits. Ribena instead of fresh juice. No English muffins (which are
>actually American) but lots of lardies!
ref: 1997 March 30, Paul Louis, “Why are Americans such wankers.”, in alt.nuke.europe (Usenet):
text: But Lardy Cake isn't really a London thing anyway. Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire is to my mind the epicentre of lardies.
ref: 2001 October 16, Stephen Toogood, “What is Twinkies?”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):
glosses: A lardy cake.
Related terms: lardy-dardy
laterally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæ.tə.ɹə.li/
ipa: [ˈlæ.ɾə.ɹə.li]
Etymology: From lateral + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The first known way past the brick wall of Level 29 was a technique that became known as hypertapping. By using a special grip that lets you vibrate a finger over the D-pad directions at least 10 times a second, you can effectively skip the "delayed autoshift" (DAS) that limits how fast pieces can move laterally when the D-pad is held down.
ref: 2024 January 2, Kyle Orland, “34 years later, a 13-year-old hits the NES Tetris “kill screen””, in Ars Technica:
glosses: Done in a lateral manner.
examples: text: The trial running tests which were made with the vehicles showed that they ride very steadily laterally, with almost complete absence of oscillation at all speeds.
ref: 1950 January 24, “British Railways Double-Deck Suburban Stock”, in Modern Railways, page 57:
glosses: Relating to the direction to the side.
Derived terms: ambilaterally
apicolaterally
centrolaterally
costolaterally
hemilaterally
inferolaterally
labiolaterally
mesiolaterally
mesolaterally
midlaterally
monolaterally
posteriolaterally
prolaterally
retrolaterally
logical mechanical element
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logical mechanical elements
Senses: glosses: Any part of a mechanism that exercises some form of logical control, such as a ratchet, trip, detent or interlock.
minum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minums
Etymology: See minion.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A minim.
mechanoreceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mechanoreceptors
Etymology: From mechano- + receptor.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: any receptor that provides an organism with information about mechanical changes in its environment, such as movement, tension and pressure
Related terms: mechanoreception
mechanoreceptive
mechanoreceptorial
mechanoreceptory
polycracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + -cracy or from Polycrates.
Senses: glosses: A dynasty within a democracy; Government by a clan or relatives of self-elected rulers amid a democratic process
glosses: A tyrannic regime within a democracy
kino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiːnəʊ/
rhymes: -iːnəʊ
homophone: keno
Forms: form: kinos
Etymology: 18th century. Perhaps borrowed from Mandingo cano, or from a language of the East Indies.
Senses: glosses: A botanical gum produced by various trees and other plants, particularly bloodwood species of eucalypts (Angophora, Corymbia, Eucalyptus), Butea, and Pterocarpus, used in tanning and dyeing and as an astringent in medicine.
Derived terms: Cochin kino
gum kino
kino gum
kinoin
kinone
kino red
kinotannic acid
kino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiːnəʊ/
rhymes: -iːnəʊ
homophone: keno
Forms: form: kinos
Etymology: From Russian кино́ (kinó, “movie; cinema”), via Kino-Eye and Dziga Vertov's identification of his film Man with a Movie Camera as "ABSOLUTE KINOGRAPHY".
Senses: examples: text: Man, I hate Marvel movies, but Scorsese, now that's some real kino.
qualifier: 4chan slang
glosses: Especially good or sophisticated cinema.
kino
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiːnəʊ/
rhymes: -iːnəʊ
homophone: keno
Forms: form: more kino
form: most kino
Etymology: From Russian кино́ (kinó, “movie; cinema”), via Kino-Eye and Dziga Vertov's identification of his film Man with a Movie Camera as "ABSOLUTE KINOGRAPHY".
Senses: examples: text: This game is absolutely kino.
qualifier: 4chan slang
glosses: Grand, cinematic, especially in regards to cinema or other cultural media.
Derived terms: capekino
kinosseur
kino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiːnəʊ/
rhymes: -iːnəʊ
homophone: keno
Etymology: Coined by Ross Jeffries, from kinesthesia.
Senses: examples: text: I noticed, however, that the more interested the 11 became, the more kino the 10 gave me.
ref: 2005, Neil Strauss, The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists, Text Publishing Company, →ISBN, →OL, page 154:
text: It is the specific pacing of escalating kino that is important, not the physical touches.
ref: 2007 February 6, Erik von Markovik, The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 138:
text: There's no way for me to find out a girl's attitude toward kino without giving it a try and pushing some limits, so I never miss an opportunity to touch her.
ref: 2008 September 23, Tony Clink, The Plan: Have Sex Tonight with a Gorgeous Woman in 69 Easy Steps, New York: Citadel Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 27:
topics: lifestyle
seduction-community
sexuality
glosses: Physical contact with another person, touch.
polyarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyarchies
Etymology: From poly- + -archy.
Senses: glosses: A government in which power is invested in multiple people.
Derived terms: polyarchic
polyarchical
polyarchism
polycotyledonary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + cotyledon + -ary.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having the villi of the placenta collected into definite patches, or cotyledons.
polycotyledon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːdən
Forms: form: polycotyledons
Etymology: From poly- + cotyledon.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant that has many, or more than two, cotyledons in the seed.
polyconic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + conic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or based upon, many cones.
Derived terms: polyconic projection
polychronious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Late Latin polychronius (“long-lived”), from Ancient Greek πολῠχρόνῐος (polŭkhrónĭos, “long-lived”).
Senses: glosses: long-lasting; chronic.
polychromy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polychromies
Senses: glosses: polychrome painting
glosses: the painting of statues etc.
Related terms: polychrome
polychromous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polychromous
form: most polychromous
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to polychromy; many-colored; polychromatic.
Meissner effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Meissner effects
Etymology: For Walther Meißner, German physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The total expulsion of magnetic flux from the interior of a superconducting metal when it is cooled in a magnetic field below a critical temperature, near absolute zero, at which the transition to superconductivity takes place.
polychromic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polychromic
form: most polychromic
Etymology: From poly- + chromic.
Senses: glosses: Polychromatic; many-coloured.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or designating, any one of several acids (known only in their salts) which contain more than one atom of chromium.
polychrome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + -chrome.
Senses: examples: text: A polychrome two-handled jar with red and white streaks on a dark ground.
ref: 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 52:
synonyms: polychromatic
;
multicolor
multicoloured
;
motley
variegated
coordinate_terms: word: achromatic
word: colorless
word: ;
word: monochrome
word: monochromatic
word: monotone
word: unicolor
word: ;
word: bichrome
word: bichromatic
word: dichromatic
word: duotone
word: bicolor
word: ;
word: trichrome
word: trichromatic
english: few or several
translation: few or several
word: tritone
word: tricolor
glosses: Using multiple or many colours.
examples: text: polychrome printing
glosses: Executed in the manner of polychromy.
polychrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polychromes
Etymology: From poly- + -chrome.
Senses: examples: text: Maya influence is particularly noticeable in the decorative elements depicted on Ulua polychromes and the development of complex syntactic rules governing the organization of decorative motifs into an integrated stylistic design.
ref: 1988, Elizabeth Hill Boone, Gordon Randolph Willey, The Southeast Classic Maya Zone: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks..., page 324:
glosses: A piece of multicolored pottery.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: esculin (so called in allusion to its fluorescent solutions)
polychrome
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: polychromes
form: polychroming
form: polychromed
form: polychromed
Etymology: From poly- + -chrome.
Senses: glosses: To paint or dye with multiple colours.
glosses: To divide (a dye etc.) into multiple colours.
melanterite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melanterites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a widespread green, mostly fibrous mineral composed of hydrated ferrous sulphate
Synonyms: iron vitriol
iron vitriol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: iron(II) sulfate
melilite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melilites
Etymology: Ancient Greek μέλι (méli, “honey”) + -lite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any mineral consisting of a solid solution of gehlenite (Ca₂Al₂SiO₇) and akermanite (Ca₂MgSi₂O₇)
Derived terms: melilitic
melilititic
amazed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈmeɪzd/
rhymes: -eɪzd
Forms: form: more amazed
form: most amazed
Senses: examples: text: I am amazed at your passionate words
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: I am amazed with matter
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
text: 1917, Frederic Harrison, The Mill on the Floss. Vol. IX. Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction
we are amazed by forked flashes of wisdom
text: And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 8, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: Astonished or confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder; greatly surprised (often with ensuing adpositions e.g. at, with, or by).
Derived terms: amazedly
amazedness
unamazed
amazed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈmeɪzd/
rhymes: -eɪzd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of amaze
polychromatic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance obtained by the action of nitric acid on aloes.
Synonyms: sense: apparently
word: aloetic acid
polychromate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polychromates
Etymology: From poly- + chromate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt or ion composed of multiple chromate groups
polychromate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + chromate.
Senses: glosses: Composed of many colours
Synonyms: motley
multicolored
polychromatic
membrane distillation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: membrane distillations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a separation method in which a nonwetting, microporous membrane is used with a liquid feed phase on one side of the membrane and a condensing, permeate phase on the other
Synonyms: membrane evaporation
thermo-pervaporation
transmembrane distillation
polychroite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + Ancient Greek χρώς (khrṓs) + -ite. Cf. polychroic. So called because of the change of color on treatment with certain acids.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: crocin
safranin
glosses: The coloring matter of saffron.
polychroism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: pleochroism
membrane mimetic chemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the study of processes and reactions whose developments have been inspired by the biological membrane
polychrest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɒlɪkɹɛst/
Forms: form: polychrests
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πολύχρηστος (polúkhrēstos, “multipurpose, highly useful”), from πολύς (polús) + χρηστός (khrēstós, “useful”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A medicine that serves for many uses, or that cures many diseases.
Derived terms: polychrest salt
Related terms: polychrestic
polychloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polychlorides
Etymology: From poly- + chloride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A molecule or ion containing three or more chlorine atoms
polychloride
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + chloride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: (of a molecule or ion) containing three or more chlorine atoms
membrane separation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: membrane separations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: any of several processes for separating the components of mixtures by using thin barriers between two miscible fluids; any transmembrane force leads to preferential transport of one or more feed components
polycarpous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + -carpous.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of polycarpic.
Coordinate terms: monocarp
monocarpous
polycarp
polycarpic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + -carpic.
Senses: examples: text: polycarpic plant
text: polycarpic growth
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing fruit repeatedly, or year after year.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having several carpels in one flower.
Synonyms: polycarpous
Coordinate terms: monocarp
monocarpic
polycarp
polycarpellary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + carpellary.
Senses: examples: text: The orange is a polycarpellary fruit.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Composed of several or numerous carpels.
polybromide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polybromides
Etymology: From poly- + bromide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A molecule or ion containing three or more bromine atoms
polybromide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + bromide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: containing three or more bromine atoms
raw_tags: of a molecule or ion
polybasite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polybasites
Etymology: From poly- + base (as in "base metal") + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A black ore consisting of silver, sulfur, and antimony, with some copper and arsenic.
polyautography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From poly- + autography.
Senses: glosses: The act or practice of multiplying copies of one's own handwriting, or of manuscripts, by printing from stone; a form of lithography.
polyatomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polyatomic
form: most polyatomic
Etymology: From poly- + atomic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: (of a molecule or ion) Consisting of three or more atoms.
Related terms: monatomic
diatomic
polyarchist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyarchists
Senses: glosses: An advocate or supporter of polyarchy.
monarchist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monarchists
Etymology: From French monarchiste, equivalent to monarchy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of, or believer in, monarchy.
Derived terms: antimonarchist
anti-monarchist
constitutional monarchist
nonmonarchist
promonarchist
Related terms: royalist
polyanthus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyanthuses
form: polyanthi
Etymology: From Renaissance Latin polyanthus, corresponding to poly- + Ancient Greek ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”).
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Hens all want to sit, the Primroses Polyanthuses &c crowd the Hedges; & a Rose Tree or two are quite full of Leaves.
ref: 1793 February 27, Hester Piozzi, Thraliana:
text: No cottage in Coughton boasted taller hollyhocks, nor finer Michaelmas daisies in the autumn than Dame Magdalen’s almshouses; and even now, at this early season, well cared-for stocks, and rich polyanthuses might excite the envy of more scientific but less successful gardeners.
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter X, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 227–228:
glosses: A type of primula, apparently originally from a hybrid between the cowslip and the primrose, having many different-coloured flowers.
polyandric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From polyandry + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or characterized by, polyandry; mating with several males.
polyandrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Dated form of polyandrous.
Derived terms: polyandrianism
polyadelphous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + Ancient Greek ἀδελφός (adelphós) + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having stamens combined in more than two groups.
polyadelphian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of polyadelphous.
epicenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛpɪˌsɛntɚ/
ipa: /ˈɛpɪˌsɛntə/
Forms: form: epicenters
Etymology: From epi- + center.
Senses: examples: text: Before the area was a tech epicenter, it was a bucolic land of fruit orchards.
ref: 2025 August 4, Sheera Frenkel, “How Tech Firms Like Google and Meta Are Embracing the Military”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2025:
glosses: Alternative form of epicentre.
Hyponyms: ground zero
epicenter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛpɪˌsɛntɚ/
ipa: /ˈɛpɪˌsɛntə/
Forms: form: epicenters
form: epicentering
form: epicentered
form: epicentered
Etymology: From epi- + center.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of epicentre.
Hellenistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɛləˈnɪstɪk/
ipa: /ˌheləˈnɪstɪk/
Forms: form: more Hellenistic
form: most Hellenistic
Etymology: From German hellenistisch, from Ancient Greek Ἑλληνιστής (Hellēnistḗs, “one who uses the Greek language”), from Ἑλλάς (Hellás, “Greece”); as if Hellenist + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the period of the Greek culture, history, or art after the death of Alexander the Great (323 B.C.) to the defeat of Cleopatra and Mark Antony by Octavian (31 B.C.) – though this end-point is often debated, and can range from 146BC to 330AD [*].
glosses: Of or relating to a Hellenist.
Derived terms: Hellenistical
Related terms: Helladic
Hellas
Hellen
Hellene
Hellenic
Hellenisation
Hellenization
Hellenise
Hellenize
Helleniser
Hellenizer
Hellenism
Hellenist
Hellenistic Greek
wahine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɑːˈhiːnɪ/
ipa: /wɑˈhineɪ/
ipa: /wɑˈhini/
rhymes: -iːni
rhymes: -iːneɪ
Forms: form: wahines
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori and Hawaiian wahine (“woman”), from Proto-Polynesian *fafine.
Senses: examples: text: One Way Wahine was the next beach movie, after Ride the Wild Surf, to be filmed on the sands of Hawaii. It was marketed to the teenage audience as a beach movie but it is a more serious look at the seamy side of Hawaii and the surf bums and one way wahines who go there to make a quick buck.
ref: 2005, Thomas Lisanti, Hollywood Surf and Beach Movies: The First Wave, 1959–1969, McFarland & Company, page 224:
text: The photographs showed a very plain-looking, very young wahine.
ref: 2007, Michael A. Herr, The Old Queen's Treasure, Lulu.com, page 106:
text: Cowboy applauded his pupils and turned to the audience. “Give these two wahines a round, folks. They've been good sports.”
ref: 2007, Kay L. McDonald, Heart in Custody, iUniverse, page 40:
glosses: A Polynesian or Maori woman.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: A female surfer.
Helladic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈlædɪk/
rhymes: -ædɪk
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἑλλᾰδικός (Hellădikós, “from Greece”), from Ἑλλάς (Hellás, “Greece”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the civilization that flourished in mainland Greece during the Bronze Age (3000 to about 1100 B.C.E.).
Derived terms: early Helladic
Related terms: Hellas
Hellen
Hellene
infobox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infoboxes
Etymology: From info + box.
Senses: examples: text: Roughly every third Wikipedia article contains an infobox – a table that displays important facts about the subject
ref: 2010, Dustin Lange, Felix Naumann, Extracting structured information from Wikipedia articles to populate infoboxes:
qualifier: wiki jargon
glosses: A consistently-formatted table which is present in articles with a common subject.
auricularia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːˌɹɪk.jʊˈlɛəɹi.ə/
ipa: /ɔˌɹɪk.jəˈɛɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Etymology: From Latin auriculāria (“ear-shaped things”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The larvae of the sea cucumber.
auriculars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auricular
auriculars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The more inland, lighter race is distinguished from A. u. uropygialis in being much paler on the back, by the edgings of the forehead scallopings and auriculars being paler, and by having the brown of the forehead less deep and less rufescent.
ref: 1937, The Emu: Official Organ of the Australasian Ornithologists' Union:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A circle of feathers surrounding the opening of the ear of birds.
auriculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪkjʊlɪt
Forms: form: more auriculate
form: most auriculate
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of auriculated.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having two lobes, often curved, often near the base.
raw_tags: of leaves
Derived terms: biauriculate
uniauriculate
auriculated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having ears or appendages like ears; eared.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having lobes or appendages like the ear; shaped like the ear; auriculate.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having an angular projection on one or both sides, as in certain bivalve shells, the foot of some gastropods, etc.
Related terms: auricle
auriferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːˈɹɪfəɹəs/
other: /oɹˈɪfəɹəs/
other: /ɑɹˈɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more auriferous
form: most auriferous
Etymology: From Latin aurifer (“gold-bearing”) + the English suffix -ous. The Latin term in turn derived from aurum (“gold”) + ferō (“I carry”).
Senses: examples: text: Rocks rich in gems, and mountains big with mines, / That on the high equator ridgy riſe, / Whence many a burſting ſtream auriferous plays: [...]
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, pages 70–71, lines 646–648:
text: To these [compounds] belong native gold, alloys of gold and silver, and the argentiferous gold, or auriferous silver, obtained from the assayings of auriferous minerals and ores.
ref: 1854, Carl Friedrich Plattner, Sheridan Muspratt, The Use of the Blowpipe in the Qualitative and Quantitative Examination of Minerals, Ores, Furnace Products, and Other Metallic Combinations:
text: In some places, however, quartz reefs, payably auriferous while in Silurian rock, have been followed down to subjacent granite, and have there been found to thin out and become unprofitable [...]
ref: 1887, R. A. Murray, Victoria. Geology and Physical Geography, page 126:
glosses: Containing or producing gold; gold-bearing.
Hypernyms: metalliferous
Derived terms: auriferously
auriferousness
non-auriferous
Related terms: -ferous
auriflamme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auriflammes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of oriflamme.
aurigal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin aurīgālis, from aurīga (“charioteer”).
Senses: examples: text: […]the established thoroughfare for equestrian and aurigal travellers.
ref: 1829, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Disowned:
text: I cannot help thinking that some incipient Jehu […] must have adopted the term furnished by Ainsworth to his new aurigal arrangement.
ref: 1857, Notes and Queries, Series 2, Vol. 4, London: Bell & Daldy, page 205:
text: No evidence exists of his [Elagabalus's] alleged sexual versatility, of his averred convivial extravagance, of his famed aurigal or saltatory prowess, or of his reportedly wicked sense of humour.
ref: 2017, Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado, “Opening Address to the Varian Symposium”, in Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado, editor, Varian Studies Volume Three: A Varian Symposium, →ISBN, page 12:
text: To return to Li Po and round out his views in poetry of the Lu Shan waterfall, we need only refer first to a couplet in his “Lu Mountain Ballad, Sent to ‘Emptyboat’ Lu, Aurigal Attendant,” so ably discussed by Elling Eide.
ref: 2019, Paul W. Kroll, “Lexical Landscapes and Textual Mountains in the High T’ang”, in Paul W. Kroll, editor, Critical Readings on Tang China, Vol. 3, Brill, →ISBN, page 1037:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a chariot.
aurigation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin aurigatio, from aurigare "to be a charioteer", from auriga.
Senses: glosses: The act of driving a chariot or a carriage.
aurigraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin aurum (“gold”) + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The art of writing with or in gold.
aurin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aurine
Etymology: From Latin aurum (“gold”) + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A red colouring matter derived from phenol. Used as an indicator.
Synonyms: sense: in commerce
word: yellow corallin
topics: chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: rosolic acid
auriphrygiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔː.ɹɪˈfɹɪdʒ.i.ət/
other: /ˌoɹ.əˈfɹɪdʒ.i.ət/
other: /ˌɑɹ.əˈfɹɪdʒ.i.ət/
rhymes: -ɪdʒiət
Etymology: From Late Latin auriphrigiatus; Latin aurum (“gold”) + Late Latin phrygiare (“to adorn with Phrygian needlework, or with embroidery”); perhaps corrupted from some other word.
Senses: glosses: Embroidered or decorated with gold.
auripigment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auripigments
Senses: glosses: Variant of orpiment
auriscalp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auriscalps
Etymology: From Latin auris (“ear”) + scalpere (“to scrape”).
Senses: glosses: An earpick.
auriscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auriscopes
Etymology: From auri- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for examining the condition of the ear.
Synonyms: otoscope
auriscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auri- + -scopy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Examination of the ear using an auriscope.
Synonyms: otoscopy
Derived terms: auriscopic
Related terms: auriscope
aurist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aurists
Etymology: From aur- + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: I remembered I hadn't sent that wire to Kipper Herring, inviting him to come and join the gang. I went to Aunt Dahlia's boudoir and repaired this omission, telephoning the communication to someone at the post office who would have been well advised to consult a good aurist.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: One skilled in treating and curing disorders of the ear.
Synonyms: otologist
Coordinate terms: ENT
otolaryngologist
otorhinolaryngologist
aurited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having lobes like the ear; auriculate.
aurivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪvəɹəs
Etymology: From Latin aurum + -vorous.
Senses: glosses: Gold-devouring.
aurochloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aurochlorides
Etymology: From auro- + chloride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The complex anion, AuCl₄⁻, produced when gold is dissolved in aqua regia.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt containing this anion.
Synonyms: chloraurate
aurochs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈaʊɹɒks/
/ˈɔːɹɒks/
Forms: form: aurochs
form: aurochsen
form: aurochses
form: auroch
form: aurox
Etymology: Borrowed from German Aurochs, an early variant of Auerochse, from Middle High German ūrochse (“aurochs”), from Old High German ūrohso (“aurochs”), a compound consisting of ūro (“aurochs”) (from Proto-Germanic *ūraz, *ūrô (“aurochs”)) + ohso (“ox”). Akin to Old English ūr (“aurochs”), Old Norse úrr (“aurochs”), Middle Low German ūrosse (“aurochs”), Old English oxa (“ox”). More at ox.
Senses: glosses: An extinct European mammal, Bos primigenius, the ancestor of domestic cattle.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The European bison (Bos bonasus, or Europæus).
Synonyms: ure
urus
Related terms: word: ure
english: perhaps related
translation: perhaps related
word: urus
aurochs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈaʊɹɒks/
/ˈɔːɹɒks/
Etymology: From auroch + -s (forming plurals).
Senses: glosses: plural of auroch
looseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːsnəs/
Forms: form: loosenesses
Etymology: From loose + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: See if that nut has too much looseness and tighten it if it does.
glosses: The quality or fact of being free from rigidity, attachment or restraint; not tight, not firmly attached or taut.
glosses: A relaxed state regarding principles or accuracy.
examples: text: Yet goodly court he made still to his Dame, / Pourd out in loosnesse on the grassy grownd [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Moral laxity; licentiousness.
aum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aums
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of om (“mystical syllable”).
aum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aums
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aam.
post count
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post counts
form: postcount
Senses: glosses: The number of messages written by a user on an internet forum or message board.
aurocyanide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aurocyanides
Etymology: From auro- + cyanide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The complex anion, Au(CN)₂⁻, produced when gold is dissolved as part of the cyanide process.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt containing this anion.
Synonyms: cyanaurate
auroral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːˈɹɔəɹəl/
ipa: /ɔːˈɹɔːɹəl/
ipa: /ɔˈɹɔɹəl/
ipa: /əˈɹɔɹəl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹəl
Forms: form: more auroral
form: most auroral
Etymology: From aurora + -al.
Senses: examples: text: This first created light is properly the auroral light.
ref: 1684, Francis Bampfield, Miqra ̕qadōsh […] A Grammatical Opening of Some Hebrew Words and Phrases, London: John Lawrence, page 36:
text: This auroral openness and uplift gives to all creative ideal levels a bright and caroling quality, which is nowhere more marked than where the controlling emotion is religious.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lectures 11, 12 and 13”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, pages 266–267:
text: Sunsets were redder and more intense; dawns were whiter and more auroral.
ref: 1928, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no. 0200331h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, July 2015:
text: Hugh kissed her and Abby felt as young and tremulous as a schoolgirl. But she was not demanding and she was not headlong and she counseled herself to look on this tenuous, auroral experience as one that would last only so long as she remained in England […]
ref: 1958, Jean Stafford, “The Children’s Game”, in The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, published 1969, pages 25–26:
synonyms: aurorean
dawnlike
dilucular
eoan
glosses: Pertaining to the dawn; dawning, eastern, like a new beginning.
examples: text: Her cheeks suffused with an auroral blush,
ref: 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Student’s Tale”, in Tales of a Wayside Inn, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, page 38:
synonyms: blushing
roseate
glosses: Rosy in colour.
examples: text: The creature brought within him an amplitude of Northern knowledge. Glacial catastrophes, snow-storm episodes, glittering auroral effects, Polaris in the zenith, Franklin underfoot,—the category of his commonplaces was wonderful.
ref: 1878, Thomas Hardy, chapter 10, in The Return of the Native, volume 1, London: Smith, Elder, page 194:
glosses: Pertaining to the aurora borealis or aurora australis.
Derived terms: auroral chorus
aurorally
subauroral
transauroral
longshoreman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longshoremen
Etymology: From alongshoreman, from alongshore + -man.
Senses: examples: text: After that, Mr. Givens thought little more of his illness and returned to work as a longshoreman at the Port of New Orleans.
ref: 2020 December 12, Pranshu Verma, “‘Very High Risk’: Longshoremen Want Protection From the Virus So They Can Stay on the Job”, in The New York Times:
text: With hours to go before their labor contract expired, longshoremen on the East and Gulf Coasts prepared on Monday to go on strike at midnight, halting most activity at some of the busiest U.S. ports.
ref: 2024 September 30, Peter Eavis, “Counteroffers Exchanged in Effort to Avert U.S. Dock Strike”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: dockworker
glosses: A man employed to load and unload ships; any person thus employed.
glosses: One who makes a living along the shore by oyster-fishing, etc.
Derived terms: longshoreman's cap
Related terms: longshorewoman
aurous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɔːɹəs/
Forms: form: more aurous
form: most aurous
Etymology: From auro- + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Relating to gold.
glosses: Containing gold.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing univalent gold.
Derived terms: aurous iodide
aurous oxide
sodioaurous
Related terms: auric
post-lingual deafness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Deafness contracted after acquiring a first language.
Related terms: peri-lingual deafness
longshoremen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longshoreman
auscult
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: auscults
form: ausculting
form: ausculted
form: ausculted
Senses: glosses: Synonym of auscultate.
synonyms: word: auscultate
auscultate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: auscultates
form: auscultating
form: auscultated
form: auscultated
Etymology: Back-formation from auscultation.
Senses: examples: text: The doctor, listening past him, had had the same bovine stare as when he was auscultating.
ref: 1969, Hortense Calisher, chapter 3, in The New Yorkers,, Boston: Little, Brown, page 123:
glosses: To listen (for example to the heart or lungs) by auscultation; to examine by auscultation.
auscultator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auscultators
Senses: glosses: Someone who performs auscultation.
glosses: An instrument for auscultation.
glosses: In Germany, one who had passed his first public examination in law, and who was merely retained, not yet employed or paid by government.
auscultatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Probably from Latin auscultātor (“listener, heeder”) + -y
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to auscultation
Ausonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɔːˈsəʊni.ən/
Etymology: From Latin Ausonia (“Lower Italy”), extended poetically to “Italy”, from Ancient Greek Αὐσονία (Ausonía), from Αὔσων (Aúsōn), a son of Ulysses, who is said to have settled there.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes they marked the form of the silk-haired and graceful capella, with its wreathing horn and bright grey eye—which, still beneath Ausonian skies, recalls the eclogues of Maro, browsing half-way up the hills; and the grapes, already purple with the smiles of the deepening summer, glowed out from the arched festoons, which hung pendent from tree to tree.
ref: 1834, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter IX, in The Last Days of Pompeii. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […]; successor to Henry Colburn, →OCLC:
text: master of the glorious art of proud Ausonian song
ref: 1887, Theodor Mommsen, William Purdie Dickson, The Provinces of the Roman Empire from Caesar to Diocletian, page 172:
glosses: Of ancient Ausonia or the Ausonians.
examples: text: Or hollowing one hand against his ear, / To list a foot-fall, ere he saw / The wood-nymph, stay'd the Ausonian king to hear / Of wisdom and of law.
ref: 1832–1833, Alfred Tennyson, “[Poems. (Published 1832.)] The Palace of Art”, in Poems, 8th edition, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1853, →OCLC, page 117:
glosses: Italian.
glosses: Of or relating to the ancient poet Ausonius.
Ausonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɔːˈsəʊni.ən/
Forms: form: Ausonians
Etymology: From Latin Ausonia (“Lower Italy”), extended poetically to “Italy”, from Ancient Greek Αὐσονία (Ausonía), from Αὔσων (Aúsōn), a son of Ulysses, who is said to have settled there.
Senses: examples: text: The Ausonians, the most ancient inhabitants of Italy, computed the day from midnight.
ref: 1823, “Chronology”, in Encyclopaedia Britannica:
glosses: An ancient inhabitant of middle or lower Italy.
glosses: An Italian.
Related terms: ausonium
auspicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: auspicates
form: auspicating
form: auspicated
form: auspicated
Etymology: From Latin auspicatus, past participle of auspicari "to take auspices", from auspex "bird seer", "augur", a contraction of avispex; avis "bird" + specere, spicere, "to view".
Senses: glosses: To foreshow; to foretoken.
glosses: To give a favorable turn to in commencing; to inaugurate; -- a sense derived from the Roman practice of taking the auspicium, or inspection of birds, before undertaking any important business.