cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bispel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English bispel, from Old English bīspel, biġspel (“proverb, parable, example, story”), from bī- (“by”) + spel (“talk, story”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Biespil (“example”), Middle Dutch bijspel (“proverb, parable”), German Low German Bispeel (“example”), German Beispiel (“example”). More at byspel, by-, spell.
Senses: examples: text: Helmut de Boor offers a similarly narrow definition of the nature of morals to be drawn from fables. Opposing "bispel" and fable he sums up the differences as regards this aspect: "The bispel aims at cognition, the fable gives practical knowledge, and in so far as an educational aim is involved the bispel aims at improving man, the fable at making him wiser."
ref: 1983, Marianne Powell, Fabula Docet:
text: Such episodes and events were used to illustrate and justify more general or abstract 'philosophical' statements in much the same way as exempla or bispel 'edifying illustrative stories' were used in medieval sermons. And just as we have collections of exempla and bispel from medieval times onwards in Europe, [...]
ref: 1998, Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 7:
text: In adopting the bipartite structure, then, the Phoenix-poet demonstrates that this poem is a 'two-fold story,' a bispel.
ref: 2008, Janie Steen, Verse and Virtuosity:
glosses: A proverb or parable.
Related terms: byspel
buggeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buggery
thromboembolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a thromboembolism.
thrombogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrombogeneses
Etymology: From thrombo- + genesis.
Senses: topics: hematology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The formation of clots
instars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of instar
stoor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɔː/
ipa: /stʊə/
ipa: /stɔɚ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: stoors
form: stooring
form: stoored
form: stoored
form: stour
Etymology: From Middle English storen, *sturien, from Old English *storian, variant of styrian (“to stir, move”), from Proto-Germanic *sturōną (“to turn, disturb”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twer-, *(s)tur- (“to rotate, twirl, swirl, move”). Cognate with Dutch storen (“to disturb”), Middle Low German stören (“to stir”), German stören (“to disturb”), dialectal German sturen (“to poke, root”). See stir.
Senses: glosses: To move; stir.
glosses: To move actively; keep stirring.
glosses: To rise up in clouds, as smoke, dust, etc.
glosses: To stir up, as liquor.
glosses: To pour; pour leisurely out of any vessel held high.
glosses: To sprinkle.
stoor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɔː/
ipa: /stʊə/
ipa: /stɔɚ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: stoors
form: stour
Etymology: From Middle English storen, *sturien, from Old English *storian, variant of styrian (“to stir, move”), from Proto-Germanic *sturōną (“to turn, disturb”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twer-, *(s)tur- (“to rotate, twirl, swirl, move”). Cognate with Dutch storen (“to disturb”), Middle Low German stören (“to stir”), German stören (“to disturb”), dialectal German sturen (“to poke, root”). See stir.
Senses: glosses: Stir; bustle; agitation; contention.
glosses: A gush of water.
glosses: Spray.
glosses: A sufficient quantity of yeast for brewing.
Derived terms: stoorey
stoory
stoor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɔː/
ipa: /stʊə/
ipa: /stɔɚ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: stoorer
form: more stoor
form: stoorest
form: most stoor
Etymology: See stour.
Senses: examples: text: A fenny gooſe, even as her fleſhe is blacker, ſtoorer, unholſomer, ſo is her feather, for the ſame cauſe, courſer, ſtoorer, and rougher, and therefore I have heard very good fletchers ſay, that the ſecond fether in ſome place is better than the pinion in other ſome.
ref: 1545, Roger Ascham, Toxophilus, the Schole of Shootinge […], London: […] Edouardi Whytchurch, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of stour.
Derived terms: stoorness
Related terms: stoor worm
Kleene star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kleene stars
Etymology: After Stephen Cole Kleene (1909-1994), American mathematician.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: Kleene operator
coordinate_terms: Kleene plus
glosses: The asterisk, *, used as an operator to concatenate zero or more strings from a given set, widely used in regular expressions.
Related terms: Kleene closure
star height
Kleene stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kleene star
intonates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intonate
intonating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intonate
intonated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intonate
irreality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irrealities
Etymology: From ir- + reality.
Senses: examples: text: But then the vision swamps that awareness, and he’s digging in the earth again, trying to prove its irreality to himself. It is rough and grainy on his palms, as real as anything he’s ever felt.
ref: 2023, Vajra Chandrasekera, The Saint of Bright Doors, Solaris (2024), page 191:
glosses: Unreality.
irrealities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of irreality
arhythmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arhythmic
form: most arhythmic
form: arrhythmic
Etymology: From a- + rhythmic.
Senses: examples: text: They hear the arhythmic tick of the hot water pipe contracting behind the bath.
ref: 1997, Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, Vintage (1998), page 84:
glosses: Having no rhythm.
Synonyms: sense: having no rhythm
word: irrhythmic
sense: having no rhythm
word: unrhythmic
sense: having no rhythm
word: nonrhythmic
Derived terms: arhythmically
Related terms: arrhythmia
dysrhythmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dysrhythmic
form: most dysrhythmic
Etymology: From dys- + rhythmic.
Senses: glosses: Having an unpleasing, irregular beat.
glosses: Having or relating to dysrhythmia.
Derived terms: antidysrhythmic
dysrhythmically
dysrhythmic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dysrhythmics
Etymology: From dys- + rhythmic.
Senses: glosses: A person who has dysrhythmia.
unrhythmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrhythmic
form: most unrhythmic
Etymology: From un- + rhythmic.
Senses: glosses: Having no rhythm.
irrhythmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irrhythmic
form: most irrhythmic
Etymology: From ir- + rhythm + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Having no rhythm.
Derived terms: irrhythmically
file-drawer problem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: file-drawer problems
Etymology: From the notion of statistical studies that show no significant effect tending to remain unpublished in file drawers.
Senses: glosses: The bias to meta-analysis resulting from statistical studies with low statistical power tending to remain unpublished and inaccessible to the analyst.
Related terms: funnel plot
publication bias
publication bias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: publication biases
Senses: examples: text: Studies with negative results tend not to be published in scientific journals, a phenomenon known as "publication bias".
ref: 2011, Jacques Pepin, “Out of Africa”, in The Origins of AIDS, 1st edition, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: The bias to meta-analysis resulting from statistical studies with low statistical power tending to remain unpublished and inaccessible to the analyst.
Related terms: funnel plot
file-drawer problem
statistical power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: statistical powers
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: The probability that a statistical test will reject a false null hypothesis, that is, that it will not make a type II error, producing a false negative.
statistical powers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of statistical power
file-drawer problems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of file-drawer problem
publication biases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of publication bias
legal positivism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legal positivisms
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A school of thought in jurisprudence in which the law is seen as separated from moral values, i.e. the law is posited by lawmakers (humans).
effect size
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: effect sizes
Senses: examples: text: He spent a year breaking down the 45 studies Stapel produced at Tilburg and cataloguing their individual aberrations, noting where the effect size – a standard measure of the difference between the two groups in an experiment – seemed suspiciously large, […]
ref: 2017 February 1, Stephen Buranyi, “The high-tech war on science fraud”, in The Guardian:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A measure of the strength or magnitude of the effect of an independent variable on a dependent variable in an experiment or a quasi-experiment.
Synonyms: sense: measure of magnitude of effect
word: treatment effect
sense: measure of magnitude of effect
word: ATE
effect sizes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of effect size
-ern
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: In form, from Middle English -erne, -ern, -ren, -ron (northern(e), northron, so(u)thern(e), sothron, etc), from Old English -erne (norþerne, etc), from Proto-Germanic *-r- (probably from rebracketing of *nurþrōnijaz etc) + *-ōnijaz, whence also Old High German -rōni, Old Saxon -rōni, Old Norse -rǿnn / Old Norse -ǿnn. In practice, possibly a back-formation from northern, southern, etc.
(Contrast the -ern in hāliġern, etc., which is related to ærn (“place”).)
Senses: qualifier: nonstandard outside fossilized words
glosses: Added to the names of directions to form adjectives.
Derived terms: leftern
rightern
Related terms: northern
eastern
southern
western
northron
eastron
southron
westron
norther
easter
souther
wester
jaden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪdən
Etymology: From jade + -en.
Senses: examples: text: They were led by white rays to a spot where they found a jaden figure of Lao-tzu buried in the ground.
ref: 1988, Florian C. Reiter, "The Visible Divinity: The Sacred Icon in Religious Taoism", Nachrichten der Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens (NOAG), Issue 144, page 66
text: O Ruby Rose on Jasmine Leaf and Jaden Rod!
ref: 2007, Nathan Redman, “Ave”, in Bloodwork: Poems, Xulon Press, page 327:
text: A red stamp was impressed on the notes by means of the jaden state seal, the āl, with which the rulers were invested.
ref: 2013, Hans Ulrich Vogel, Marco Polo Was in China: New Evidence from Currencies, Salts and Revenues, Brill, published 2013, →ISBN, page 114:
glosses: Made of, resembling, or pertaining to jade.
circular firing squad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circular firing squads
Senses: examples: text: "What we're seeing here is a kind of circular firing squad, with everybody standing in a circle pointing fingers at the person beside them," said Representative Robert S. Walker of Pennsylvania, the chief deputy Republican whip.
ref: 1992 March 26, Michael deCourcy Hinds, “Capitol Hill Memo: After Scandals, the Hush of Paranoia”, in New York Times, retrieved 22 May 2009:
text: He said it was not the party that had lost the last election, but the "circular firing squad" of MPs.
ref: 1997 October 9, Anthony Bevins, “The Tories: MPs get the blame for May election defeat”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 22 May 2009:
text: [J]ust about everyone who helped create this mess is busy pointing fingers, scapegoating the other guys, firing the lower-downs and diming out the higher-ups. Last week what was once envisioned as a new kind of company resembled little more than a circular firing squad of executives, accountants, consultants and lawyers.
ref: 2002 January 28, Michael Duffy et al., “What Did They Know And...When Did They Know It?”, in Time:
glosses: A political party or other group experiencing considerable disarray because the members are engaging in internal disputes and mutual recrimination.
Related terms: finger-pointing
infighting
Mexican standoff
babe in the wood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babes in the wood
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of babe in the woods.
redundance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈdʌndəns/
Forms: form: redundances
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin redundantia.
Senses: examples: text: Phlebotomy, many times neglected, may do much harm to the body, when there is a manifest redundance of bad humours and melancholy blood […]
ref: , vol.I, New York 2001, p.236
glosses: Redundancy.
edematose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more edematose
form: most edematose
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of edematous.
tumorectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: tumorectomies
Etymology: From tumor + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: the surgical removal of a tumor, along with the minimum of healthy tissue
uropathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uropathies
Etymology: From uro- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any disease or disorder of the urinary tract.
topics: alternative-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: The therapeutic use of urine; urine therapy.
Synonyms: sense: urine therapy
word: urotherapy
sense: urine therapy
word: urinotherapy
valvulopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valvulopathies
Etymology: From valvulo- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease or disorder of the valves of the heart
Related terms: valvulopathic
vasoactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vasoactive
form: most vasoactive
Etymology: From vaso- + active.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Active on vessel walls, that is, causing either constriction or dilation of a blood vessel, thus affecting hemodynamics (blood flow). Vasoactive substances may be endogenous (for example, endogenous angiotensin, vasopressin, or epinephrine) or exogenous (for example, pharmaceutical vasopressin or epinephrine).
Derived terms: vasoactive intestinal peptide
Related terms: vasoactivity
vasoconstriction
vasoconstrictive
vasoconstrictor
vasodepressant
vasodepression
vasodepressor
vasodilatation
vasodilatative
vasodilatatory
vasodilate
vasodilation
vasodilative
vasodilator
vasodilatory
vasomotor
vasopressin
vasopressor
vasotonic
vasotonin
volemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːmɪk
Forms: form: volaemic
form: volæmic
Etymology: From volemia + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the volume of blood circulating in the body
Derived terms: hypervolemic
hypovolemic
tetracycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetracycle
heavyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From heavy + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: It is an interesting point whether a heavyish or a lightish machine runs fastest. One thing that tells against a light machine is that usually it is much higher geared than a heavy wheel, and therefore what is lost in weight is made up for by the extra labour of propulsion.
ref: 1901, Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality, volume 35, page 37:
glosses: Somewhat heavy.
singles bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: singles bars
Senses: examples: text: Late that night / I parked my car / Staked my place / In the singles bar
ref: 1975, Bryan Ferry, Andy Mackay, “Love Is the Drug”, in Siren, performed by Roxy Music:
glosses: A bar or similar establishment for unattached people to meet.
estimands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of estimand
cigar box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cigar boxes
form: cigar-box
Senses: glosses: A box used for storing cigars.
topics: arts
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
glosses: A square box usually made of wood or plastic used as a juggling prop.
Synonyms: sense: juggling prop
word: block
sense: juggling prop
word: box
Hypernyms: box
Derived terms: cigar box guitar
cigar boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cigar box
allotransplantations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allotransplantation
amniocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amniocyte
hoatzin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwætsɪn/
ipa: /ˈwætsiːn/
ipa: /ˈwɑːtsɪn/
ipa: /ˈwɑːtsiːn/
Forms: form: hoatzins
form: hoactzin
form: hoazin
Etymology: From Nahuatl huāctzin (which probably designated a different bird).
Senses: examples: text: Hoatzins are large birds — at about twenty-six inches from head to tail, they are much larger than Archaeopteryx — with a yellowish chest, brown striped back, and a long narrow tail (Figure 53). Hoatzins are unusual in several ways, one of which is that hatchling hoatzins have claws on their wings. Although some other birds have vestigial wing claws, the hoatzin is the only species known to have functional wing or hand claws.
ref: 1999, Pat Shipman, Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight, page 196:
text: The hoatzin is a very colorful bird with a blue head, a tuft of feathers standing up on the head, and an orange iris in the eye.
ref: 2006, Buddy Davis, Kay Davis, Breathtaking Birds, page 41:
text: Unique among riverine bird species, the hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoatzin) is found along slow meandering streams and oxbows within the Amazon and Orinoco basins (Plate 12-43). Hoatzins resemble chickens in size and shape.
ref: 2011, John Kricher, Tropical Ecology, page 460:
glosses: A bird of the species Opisthocomus hoazin of the order Opisthocomiformes, with claws on the wing fingers of the juvenile and an enlarged crop used as a rumen.
Synonyms: sense: Opisthocomus hoazin
word: stinkbird
apodizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apodization
anticorrelations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anticorrelation
askers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæsk.ɚz/
ipa: /ˈɑːsk.əz/
Senses: glosses: plural of asker
autoamputations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoamputation
tomato juices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tomato juice
nomophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nomo- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: The persons of whom I speak have a terror of the very name and mention of the law. They are the morbid subjects of a kind of nomophobia, being in danger of going into fits at every allusion to it[...].
ref: 1857, Ralph Wardlaw, James R. Campbell, Systematic theology, volume 3, page 180:
text: Seen in this light, his antisemitism appears in its ultimate essence as a nomophobia, a revolt against the divinely sanctioned moral law or, religiously speaking, a revolt against God.
ref: 1985, Edward H. Flannery, The anguish of the Jews: twenty-three centuries of antisemitism, →ISBN, page 292:
text: Despite the danger of the narrowing of discipleship to activism of some kind, the end result here is not acquiescence into Enlightenment autonomy. It is not what may be termed 'nomophobia' (neurotic fear of law or command) though much of that is about.
ref: 2002, Stanley E. Porter, Anthony R. Cross, Dimensions of baptism: biblical and theological studies, →ISBN, page 247:
glosses: A fear of or disdain for laws.
nomophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a contraction of no mobile + -phobia, possibly a pun on homophobia.
Senses: examples: text: There was a second article saying that people apparently suffered from Nomophobia – the fear of not having your mobile turned on – which in the Professor's opinion simply proved that they needed to get a life.
ref: 2008, Peter Armstrong, Cell-out, page 14:
text: Alektorophobia, like metrophobia (the fear of poetry) or the disorder nomophobia (the fear of being out of cell-phone contact), is completely irrational.
ref: 2014, Blythe Woolston, edited by Leah Wilson, Divergent Thinking: YA Authors on Veronica Roth's Divergent Trilogy, page 115:
text: AT&T, for example, has sought to turn “nomophobia”—a fear of being unable to communicate for lack of a cell phone—into a vehicle for sales; see Geoff Colvin, “Building a Super‐Brand— Superfast: What's the Secret of Survival These Days? Change Quickly, Says AT&T's Marketing Chief, Along with Your Customer," Fortune September 3, 2012, 60-64.
ref: 2014, Luis Suarez-Villa, Corporate Power, Oligopolies, and the Crisis of the State, footnote, page 260:
glosses: The fear of not having a functioning mobile phone.
hi-vis
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /haɪˈvɪz/
Forms: form: more hi-vis
form: most hi-vis
form: high-vis
form: hi-viz
Etymology: Clipping of high-visibility.
Senses: examples: text: A Hi-Vis jacket which can be worn over either of the other jackets or instead of them.
ref: 1999, Jane Down, Textiles technology to GCSE:
text: […] possibly by waving a hi-vis vest or even just being visible in one.
ref: 2002, The Railway Magazine:
text: […] and if hi-vis garments are not worn, it is all too easy for a motorist not to spot you until it is too late.
ref: 2006, Karen Coumbe, Karen Bush, The Complete Equine Emergency Bible:
glosses: High-visibility.
raw_tags: of clothing
hi-vis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /haɪˈvɪz/
Forms: form: high-vis
form: hi-viz
Etymology: Clipping of high-visibility.
Senses: examples: text: These are not people – builders, airport staff, police officers – who need to be seen for safety. These are men wearing hi-vis for its aesthetic value.
ref: 2018 September 13, Simon Chilvers, “Time to reflect: why the fashion for high-vis is everywhere”, in The Guardian:
glosses: High-visibility clothing.
Abia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From an acronym of four most populated towns in the state at its creation, Aba, Bende, Isuikwuato, and Afikpo. Afikpo is now in Ebonyi state.
Senses: glosses: A state of Nigeria in the South East geopolitical zone. Capital: Umuahia. Largest city: Aba.
wikipedia: Aba, Nigeria
Afikpo
Bende, Nigeria
Isuikwuato
co-father-in-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-fathers-in-law
Etymology: From co- + father-in-law or co-father + -in-law.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Hear, O well-read Paṇḍit, my daughter is ready for marriage. Take with you a barber's lad, go forth into the country, and search for a bridegroom. […] Search for a house worthy of my house, and search for a boy worthy of my child. Search for a co-father-in-law worthy of a co-father-in-law.’ […] Up rose the well-read Paṇḍit and said ‘O king, hear my petition. There is a co-father-in-law worthy of you as co-father-in-law. There is a boy worthy of your child. There is a house worthy of your house […]’
ref: 1884, G. A. Grierson, “The Song of Bijai Mal”, in Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, volume 53, pages 132–133:
text: my old friend […] whom I trusted greatly, because I had taken care of his family in former times, and because he was, as it were, my co-father-in-law, for I had betrothed my daughter to his son.
ref: 1892, Theodōros Kolokotrōnēs, (trans.) Elizabeth Mayhew Waller Edmonds, Kolokotrones the klepht and the warrior: Sixty years of peril and daring. An autobiography, page 104:
text: Diègue tries to treat Gormas amicably as his prospective co-father-in-law, but Gormas provokes him with rude remarks and slaps him
ref: 1996, John W. Freeman, The Metropolitan Opera stories of the great operas, page 208:
glosses: The father of one's son- or daughter-in-law; that is, the father-in-law of one's child, or, the father of one spouse in relation to the father of the other spouse; either of two or more men whose children marry each other, such as the father of a bride vis-à-vis the father of the groom.
Synonyms: co-grandfather
Coordinate terms: co-mother-in-law
co-parent-in-law
Related terms: co-brother-in-law
co-in-law
exagitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exagitates
form: exagitating
form: exagitated
form: exagitated
Etymology: From the participle stem of Latin exagitāre.
Senses: examples: text: the devil many times takes his opportunity of such storms, and when the humours by the air be stirred, he goes in with them, exagitates our spirits, and vexeth our souls […]
ref: , vol.I, New York, 2001, p.241
synonyms: word: enthrill
word: inflame
word: animate
word: awaken
word: electrify
word: enflame
word: enkindle
word: enthrill
word: exagitate
word: excite
word: exhilarate
word: exsuscitate
word: fillip
word: fire
word: fire the blood
word: galvanize
word: gin up
word: ignite
word: inflame
word: intoxicate
word: kindle
word: quicken
word: rouse
word: send
word: set fire to
word: set on fire
word: sharpen
word: stir the blood
word: suscitate
word: thrill
word: vitalise
word: wake
word: warm the blood
word: whet
word: wind up
word: work up
word: yerk
glosses: To excite, stir up.
co-mother-in-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-mothers-in-law
Etymology: From co- + mother-in-law or co-mother + -in-law.
Senses: examples: text: After dinner, the discerning eye of the co-mother-in-law divines the work of darkness. Your wife also is an expectant mother !
ref: 1901, Honoré de Balzac, (trans.) Francis MacNamara, The Physiology of Marriage, page 334:
text: She had a right of entrée to the Castle now as prospective co-mother-in-law with the duchess, and made the most of it.
ref: 1912, Sarah Grand, Adnam's Orchard, pages 508–509:
text: […] responded with temper and irritability toward her step-daughter, Anna, who was so demure and so complete a member of the new society, and toward Ngaoli, her co-mother-in-law, gaunt, old, married under the old system, a devoted church member, righteous mother of five children, who fortunately had no complications in her life.
ref: 1956, Margaret Mead, New lives for old: cultural transformation—Manus, 1928-1953, page 381:
glosses: The mother of one's children-in-law; that is, the mother-in-law of one's children, or, the mother of one spouse in relation to the parents of the other spouse; either of two or more women whose children marry each other, such as the mother of a bride vis-à-vis the mother of the groom.
Synonyms: co-grandmother
Coordinate terms: co-father-in-law
co-parent-in-law
Related terms: word: co-sister-in-law
word: co-in-law
word: cummer
alt: godmother
word: co-mother
awaydays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of awayday
blowdryer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blowdryers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of blow-dryer.
blow-dryers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blow-dryer
beamsplitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beamsplitter
beartraps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beartrap
blow dryers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blow dryer
bedgowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedgown
belltowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of belltower
biofactors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biofactor
bitiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of bitey: most bitey
bitier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of bitey: more bitey
grillework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From grille + work.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of grillwork.
bosonizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bosonize
bosonizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bosonize
bosonized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bosonize
bouncebacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bounceback
breakrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breakroom
brivetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brivet
brivets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brivet
brivetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brivet
bukkehorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bukkehorn
hair-dryer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hair-dryers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hair dryer; alternative spelling of hairdryer.
hair-dryers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hair-dryer
charterhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charterhouse
churching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: churchings
Senses: examples: text: The churching of women traditionally includes thanksgiving for the women's survival of childbirth.
text: The clergyman had to dine some distance from town, and had got two churchings, three christenings, and a funeral, to perform in something less than an hour.
ref: 1834, Charles Dickens, “The Bloomsbury Christening”, in Sketches by Boz:
text: As discussed in detail by Caroline Shenton, the churchings of Queen Philippa, for which the details following Isabella's birth in 1333 survive, represented a 'gigantic festival of a family whose start in life had been extremely unsteady'.
ref: 2010, Chris Given-Wilson, Fourteenth Century England VI, page 145:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The ceremonial blessing of a woman who has given birth.
churching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of church
churched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: As to new churches in an already sufficiently churched community can this body say that such churches will not be recognized by the parent body?
ref: 1911, Proceedings of the First Interdenominational Conference, page 48:
glosses: Having a church.
examples: text: Most of the presently unchurched have had a traditionally religious background — in fact, to about the same extent as the churched.
ref: 1980, Turning Point: Christian America at the Crossroads, page 80:
text: The unchurched are less likely than the churched to be registered to vote: 75 percent of the unchurched, 79 percent of the churched and 82 percent of the superchurched are registered.
ref: 1989, George Gallup, Jim Castelli, The People's Religion: American Faith in the 90's, page 135:
text: Hypothesis H2, that churched men in general would endorse stereotypcially feminine message behavior more than would unchurched men, was tested by means of t-test.
ref: 2017, Woody L. Davis, Church Talk Makes Men Walk:
glosses: Actively participating in church services and activities, and endorsing church doctrines.
Derived terms: nonchurched
unchurched
churched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of church
bosonise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bosonises
form: bosonising
form: bosonised
form: bosonised
Etymology: From boson + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bosonize.
bosonises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bosonise
bosonising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bosonise
bosonised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bosonise
clawhammers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clawhammer
clocktowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clocktower
co-parent-in-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-parents-in-law
Etymology: From co- + parent-in-law or co-parent + -in-law.
Senses: examples: text: the relation between co-parents-in-law focuses on the production of grandchildren […] the relation between co-parents-in-law as stabilized through shared grandchildren
ref: 1995, Janet Carsten, Stephen Hugh-Jones, About the house: Lévi-Strauss and beyond, pages 120, 132:
glosses: A parent of one's son- or daughter-in-law, that is, a parent-in-law of one's son or daughter.
Synonyms: co-grandparent
Coordinate terms: co-mother-in-law
co-father-in-law
Related terms: word: co-in-law
word: co-brother-in-law
word: co-sister-in-law
english: divorced or separated
translation: divorced or separated
word: co-parents
colliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of colly: most colly
collying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of colly
collied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of colly
portaloo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portaloos
Etymology: From a trademark of Portakabin Ltd, based on portable and loo.
Senses: examples: text: The valleys and hillsides looked pretty chewed up by all the maneuvers, portaloos dotted the landscape, but the fauna seemed to appreciate the fact that the U.S. Army—unlike the Bavarian hunters outside the box—were shooting blanks.
ref: 2009, James Der Derian, Virtuous war: mapping the military-industrial-media-entertainment network:
text: On what would once have been the front lawn there is now a prefabricated hut and a portaloo.
ref: 2011, Elly Griffiths, The Janus Stone:
glosses: A portable toilet.
Synonyms: bathroom
portaloos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portaloo
confixing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of confix
confixed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of confix
confixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confix
confixes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of confix
constitutionalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of constitutionalize
constitutionalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of constitutionalise
constitutionalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of constitutionalise
constitutionalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of constitutionalize
adless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈædləs/
Etymology: From ad + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without ads (advertising).
Derived terms: adlessness
unmarrieds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unmarried
birthdayless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From birthday + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Correct methods of encouraging retiring suitors or of repelling unwelcome ones was information that its members could scarcely be supposed at their birthdayless ages to require.
ref: 1906, Grace Alexander, Judith:
text: She deserved additional glory in return for the many years when she had gone birthdayless and little girls like Enid and Geraldine had taunted her airily.
ref: 1907, Florence Wilkinson, The silent door:
text: It turns out to be easier to focus on the birthdayless days.
ref: 1976, Louisiana State University, Mathematics magazine:
text: She'd nearly had enough. She was ready to go home, forget all about it. Be the birthdayless, motherless Mattie Browne for the rest of her life.
ref: 2002, Sue Welford, Nicholas Fisk, The Shadow of August:
glosses: Without a birthday, or with no celebration on that day.
Jewlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Jewlike
form: most Jewlike
Etymology: From Jew + -like.
Senses: examples: text: His charges are ten dollars for best Wellington boots; there are a number of native workmen, who sell, Jewlike, for just such prices as they can...
ref: 1838, John Steuart, Bogotá in 1836-7:
text: Markoff, it appeared, said Radnor, "nosing around, Jewlike, to find some stuff that people would buy," had discovered, in London, a thirst for brewing...
ref: 1906, Frederic Jesup Stimson, In Cure of Her Soul:
text: Jewlike, the Jesuits have insinuated themselves into every level of society.
ref: 1996, Howard L Malchow, Gothic images of race in nineteenth-century Britain:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a Jew, especially (derogatory) the stereotype of a profiteering miser.
unstereotyped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + stereotyped.
Senses: glosses: Not stereotyped (made into a stock character).
Thermageddon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Coined by Greenpeace co-founder Robert Hunter in his 2003 book, Thermageddon: Countdown to 2030, from thermal + -geddon (after Armageddon (“the end of the world”)).
Senses: examples: text: Thermageddon is clearly not happening; the seas are not rising, and the poles are stubbornly refusing to melt, despite the efforts of thousands of climate change bureaucrats and climate modelers to make it so.
ref: 2010, Alastair Sweeny, Black Bonanza: Canada's Oil Sands and the Race to Secure North America's Energy Future, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 197:
glosses: A proposed apocalypse caused by the rising temperatures of climate change.
wikipedia: Robert Hunter (journalist)
strong point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: strongpoint
Forms: form: strong points
Senses: examples: text: 'I told you, Winston,' he said, 'that metaphysics is not your strong point. The word you are trying to think of is solipsism.[…]'
ref: 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 3, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 3, page 242:
glosses: A characteristic or ability at which one particularly excels.
Synonyms: forte
strong suit
strength
pushlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pushlets
Etymology: From push + -let, influenced by applet.
Senses: glosses: A push mechanism in which the Web server takes advantage of persistent HTTP connections and leaves the response unterminated so that it can continue to send information.
pushlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pushlet
netcast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: netcasts
Etymology: From net + -cast, from broadcast.
Senses: glosses: A broadcast transmitted over the Internet, such as a podcast.
Derived terms: netcaster
netcasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of netcast
worshipfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From worshipful + -ness. Compare Middle English worschupefulnesse (“religious devotion, piety”).
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being worshipful; reverence.
wilfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wilfulnesses
form: willfulness
Etymology: From wilful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: “I want ye all to know,” she said, with a clearing-up snuff, “dat it’s my will an’ pleasure to go right on doin’ my work jes’ de same; an’, Missis, please, I’ll allers put three eggs in de crullers, now; an’ I won’t turn de wash-basin down in de sink, but hang it jam-up on de nail; an’ I won’t pick up chips in a milk-pan, ef I’m in ever so big a hurry;—I’ll do eberyting jes’ as ye tells me. Now you try me an’ see ef I won’t!” / Candace here alluded to some of the little private wilfulnesses which she had always obstinately cherished as reserved rights, in pursuing domestic matters with her mistress.
ref: 1859, Harriet Beecher Stowe, “The Practical Test”, in The Minister’s Wooing, New York, N.Y.: Derby and Jackson, […], →OCLC, page 177:
text: Now Redworth believed in the soul of Diana. For him it burned, and it was a celestial radiance about her, unquenched by her shifting fortunes, her wilfulnesses and, it might be, errors.
ref: 1885, George Meredith, “An Exhibition of Some Champions of the Stricken Lady”, in Diana of the Crossways […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall […], pages 176–177:
text: If ever I write again, in the sense of producing artistic work, there are just two subjects on which and through which I desire to express myself: one is “Christ as the precursor of the romantic movement in life”: the other is “The artistic life considered in its relation to conduct.” The first is, of course, intensely fascinating, for I see in Christ not merely the essentials of the supreme romantic type, but all the accidents, the wilfulnesses even, of the romantic temperament also.
ref: 1897 January–March, Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, New York, N.Y.; London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons; The Knickerbocker Press, published 1905, pages 81–82:
glosses: The state or condition of being wilful; stubbornness.
whyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From why + -ness.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The reason why; the cause or intent.
whizziness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From whizzy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being whizzy.
whippiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From whippy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being whippy.
whippy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: whippier
form: whippiest
Etymology: From whip + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The tree's whippy branches grazed his face.
text: Two women sat whacking the skins with long whippy sticks, whining a song
ref: 2005, Jonathan Falla, Poor Mercy: A Novel, Birlinn, page 195:
glosses: Whiplike; thin and pliant.
glosses: Active, nimble.
whippier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of whippy: more whippy
whippiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of whippy: most whippy
whippily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪpəli/
rhymes: -ɪpəli
Forms: form: more whippily
form: most whippily
Etymology: From whippy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a whippy manner.
withdrawnness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From withdrawn + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being withdrawn or isolated.
whimsicalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whimsicalnesses
Etymology: From whimsical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Whimsicality.
worseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worsenesses
Etymology: From worse + -ness.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The state or condition of being worse; inferiority.
viscousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From viscous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of viscosity (“state of being viscous”).
synonyms: word: viscosity
extra: state of being viscous
viscidities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viscidity
viscidness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From viscid + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Viscidity.
voidness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voidnesses
Etymology: From Middle English voidenesse, equivalent to void + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being void.
virulentness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From virulent + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Virulence.
violentness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From violent + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being violent; violence, force.
violetness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From violet + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Color has three dimensions of character: hue, which refers to its color identity (its redness, orangeness, yellowness, greenness, blueness, or violetness) […]
ref: 1953, Daniel Marcus Mendelowitz, Children are Artists, page 122:
glosses: The state or condition of being violet in colour.
Synonyms: purpleness
co-brother-in-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-brothers-in-law
Etymology: From co- + brother-in-law or co-brother + -in-law.
Senses: examples: text: Knowing that he would be susceptible to the arguments of his persuasive co-brother-in-law Antonio de' Medici, Saminiato tried to avoid his company.
ref: 2008, Daniel Bornstein, David Peterson, editors, Florence and Beyond: Culture, Society and Politics in Renaissance Italy, page 350:
glosses: One's spouse's brother-in-law (one's spouse's sibling's husband), especially one's wife's sister's husband; either of two (or more) men who marry sisters, in relation to the other; the brother of one spouse in relation to the siblings of the other spouse.
glosses: One's brother-in-law's or sister-in-law's brother; that is, one's sibling's spouse's brother; either of two (or more) men whose siblings are married to each other.
Synonyms: alt: Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
word: co-brother
sense: secondary sense
english: in relation to a common niece or nephew
translation: in relation to a common niece or nephew
word: co-uncle
Coordinate terms: co-sibling-in-law
co-sister-in-law
Related terms: co-in-law
co-father-in-law
co-husband
purpleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From purple + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being purple in colour.
Coordinate terms: purplishness
Related terms: purpura
purply
co-sister-in-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-sisters-in-law
Etymology: From co- + sister-in-law or co-sister + -in-law.
Senses: examples: text: [The Russian word] Yátrov', for the husband's brother's wife or co-sister-in-law, so diagnostic a status within the patrilocal household, has passed entirely out of the language.
ref: 1979, Paul Friedrich, editor, Language, Context, and the Imagination, page 193:
text: At first the wench's second co-sister-in-law and the middle sister-in-law got into it.
ref: 2006, Kalipatnam Rama Rao, translated by C.L.L. Jayaprada, Yagnam and Other Stories, page 61:
glosses: One's spouse's sister-in-law, especially one's husband's brother's wife, one's brother's wife in relation to the spouses of his siblings; either of two (or more) women who are married to brothers, in relation to the other.
glosses: One's brother-in-law or sister-in-law's sister; one's sibling's spouse's sister; either of two (or more) women whose siblings are married, in relation to the other.
Synonyms: alt: Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana
word: co-sister
sense: secondary sense
english: in relation to a common niece or nephew
translation: in relation to a common niece or nephew
word: co-aunt
Coordinate terms: co-sibling-in-law
co-brother-in-law
Related terms: co-in-law
co-mother-in-law
co-wife
aciduria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acidurias
Etymology: From acid + -uria.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The presence of an acid in the urine
rent boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rent boy