cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hakim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hakims
form: hackeem
form: hakeem
form: huckeem
form: hukeem
Etymology: From Hindustani حکیم / हकीम (hakīm), from Classical Persian حکیم (hakīm), from Arabic حَكِيم (ḥakīm, “wise, learned”).
Senses: examples: text: The second speaks of naturall Philosophy or Physick, and is studyed by the Hackeams or Physitians […]
ref: 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, section I:
text: I went up to them, and they said, ‘We hear that you are a hakim, who has done great things.’
ref: 1903, GA Henty, With Kitchener in the Soudan:
text: ‘It was his duty to report suspicious characters, and conceivably it was some disreputable hakim who had prowled up from the bazaar.’
ref: 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 28:
text: The Englishman was to remain there for three weeks, this time posing as a hakeem, secretly observing and noting down everything of significance.
ref: 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 116:
glosses: A doctor, usually practicing traditional medicine.
hakim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hakims
form: hackeem
form: hakeem
form: huckeem
form: hukeem
Etymology: From Classical Persian حاکم (hākim), from Arabic حَاكِم (ḥākim).
Senses: glosses: A judge or governor in Islamic India.
supercherie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːˌpɛ(ɹ)ʃəˈɹiː/
Forms: form: supercheries
form: superchery
form: superchiery
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French supercherie, itself borrowed from Italian soperchieria.
Senses: examples: text: it is a Superchiery,[…] as being wel armed, to charge a man who hath but a piece of a sword, or being sound and strong, to set upon a man sore hurt.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 27, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Foul play; an attack made by deceit.
examples: text: We[…]should certainly deny to any teacher of morals, in any age, who resorted to such ‘supercherie’ and charlatanism, any very high place among the instructors and benefactors of mankind.
ref: 1863, Henry Rogers, Critique on M. Renan's Vie de Jésus:
text: According to France's foreign minister, the British foreign secretary is guilty of perpetrating a supercherie.
ref: 2005 June 23, Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian:
glosses: Deception, deceit; an instance of fraud.
raw_tags: in French contexts
zoophily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: pollination by animals
contracter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contracters
Senses: examples: text: An apparent Heir in Process ad deliberandum is not in the Case of a Contracter with Creditors, but is only when entred a quasi Contracter: […]
ref: 1714, Scotland. Court of Session, William Forbes, A Journal of the Session, page 71:
glosses: Obsolete form of contractor.
Schwimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schwimmers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schwimmer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Wimbleware
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪm.bl̩ˌweə(ɹ)/
Etymology: Blend of Wimbledon + Edgware (from Edgware Road)
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The Wimbledon to Edgware Road service on the London Underground's District Line.
zeitgebers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zeitgeber
abgeschmackt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more abgeschmackt
form: abgeschmackter
form: most abgeschmackt
form: abgeschmacktest
Etymology: Borrowed from German abgeschmackt.
Senses: examples: text: The Buddha and Mohammed and their companions and many Christian saints are incrusted with a heavy jewellery of anecdotes which are meant to be honorific, but are simply abgeschmackt and silly, and form a touching expression of man's misguided propensity to praise.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lectures XIV and XV: The Value of Saintliness”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, pages 341–342:
text: The play, which did not have a success, has a dark, vibrant beauty of its own; it recalls Pirandello, and the abgeschmackt post-war German drama.
ref: 1935, Camillo Pellizzi, translated by Rowan Williams, English Drama: The Last Great Phase, Macmillan, page 154:
glosses: Outrageous; tasteless.
theopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌθiːə(ʊ)ˈpæθɪk/
ipa: /ˌθiəˈpæθɪk/
rhymes: -æθɪk
Forms: form: more theopathic
form: most theopathic
Etymology: From theo- + -pathic.
Senses: examples: text: There is no English name for such a sweet excess of devotion, so I will refer to it as a theopathic condition.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lectures XIV and XV: The Value of Saintliness”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 343:
glosses: Sensitive to divine influence; being profoundly affected by ideas of godly origin.
them's the facts
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: The boy was left with Bob Yancy mainly because nobody else would take him. Them's the facts. Now go on!
ref: 1911, Vaughan Kester, “Law at Balaam's Cross-roads”, in The Prodigal Judge, Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 284963; republished Fairfield, Ind.: 1st World Library Literary Society, 2006, ISBN 978-1-4218-1813-9, page 44
text: ‘Them’s the facts!’ said Brown, taking little trouble to hide his contempt for anyone so stupid as not to understand. ‘The orficers were killed. Couldn’t see it with me own glims ’cos I couldn’t be everywhere at once. But they was dead all right.’
ref: 1965, Dudley Pope, Ramage, a Novel, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, →OCLC:
text: I know you're worn out. I am too. It's too damn hot and I've forgotten what fresh water tastes like. Them's the facts. But let's just make it easy on ourselves and get this thing done and then we'll all get on back to the beach and off to the islands of nooky-nooky.
ref: 2007, Homer Hickam, The Far Reaches: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 83:
glosses: Those are the facts, that's the truth, that's how it is.
raquetball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of racquetball.
racketball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: racketballs
Etymology: From racket + ball.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of racquetball.
pinguin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinguins
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of penguin (“the bird, or the plant”).
replay attacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of replay attack
superceding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of supercede: misspelling of superseding.
2-8-8-2s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 2-8-8-2
immortalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈmɔː(ɹ).təˌlaɪz/
Forms: form: immortalises
form: immortalising
form: immortalised
form: immortalised
form: immortalize
Etymology: From immortal + -ise. Perhaps modelled on Middle French immortaliser.
Senses: examples: text: The meek intelligence of thoſe dear eyes / (Bleſt be the art that can immortalize, / The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim / To quench it) here ſhines on me ſtill the ſame.
ref: 1790, William Cowper, “On the Receipt of My Mother’s Picture out of Norfolk. The Gift of My Cousin Ann Bodham.”, in Poems […], London: […] [F]or J[oseph] Johnson, […] by T[homas] Bensley, […], published 1806, →OCLC, page 579:
glosses: To give unending life to, to make immortal.
examples: text: His heroic deeds were immortalised in song and tale.
text: There is a local rhyme which says:
Culbone, Oare and Stoke Pero
Are three such places as you seldom hear o'.
Stoke Pero and Culbone are equally remote hamlets, respectively 5 miles south-east and 2½ miles east of Oare, a village of which few would have heard had not Blackmore [(R. D. Blackmore)] immortalised it.
ref: 1980, AA Book of English Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 302, about Oare:
text: The clocks at either end of the stadium had just ticked past 92 minutes when Branislav Ivanovic made the run that will immortalise him in Chelsea's history.
ref: 2013 May 15, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian:
glosses: To make eternally famous.
Derived terms: immortalisation
transimmortalised
epimutation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ɛpɪmjuˈteɪʃən]
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: epimutations
Etymology: From epi- + mutation; compare epigenetic.
Senses: examples: text: The first sign of cellular abnormality in some tumors is an epimutation—a change in heritable chromatin marks, such as an increase or decrease in the density of DNA methylation.
ref: 2005, Eva Jablonka, Marion J. Lamb, Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 248:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A heritable change in gene expression that does not affect the actual base pair sequence of DNA.
Related terms: epimutant
epimutational
epigenetics
CNT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CNTs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of carbon nanotube.
Related terms: CNTRP
firr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firrs
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of fir.
epigenotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epigenotypes
Etymology: From epi- + genotype; compare epigenetic.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The stable pattern of gene expression that is outside the actual base pair sequence of DNA.
Related terms: epigenotypic
epigenotype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: epigenotypes
form: epigenotyping
form: epigenotyped
form: epigenotyped
Etymology: From epi- + genotype; compare epigenetic.
Senses: glosses: To analyse or document such genotypes.
Related terms: epigenetics
epiphenotype
millimètre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millimètres
Senses: examples: text: The patient was a little girl, who, after juxta-epiphysary osteitis of the tibia, presented, with an anchylosed knee, a shortening of 24 millimètres. An application of Vienna paste, and afterwards Canquoin’s was made over the front of the tibia; three months afterwards the shortening was only 11 millimètres.
ref: 1874, Half-yearly Compendium of Medical Science, XIII-XIV, page 240:
glosses: Rare spelling of millimetre.
rat running
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rat run
exercisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exercisable
form: most exercisable
Etymology: From exercise + -able.
Senses: examples: an exercisable legal power
glosses: Capable of being exercised.
Derived terms: nonexercisable
unexercisable
libertinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: libertinisms
Etymology: From libertine + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he lord made a boaſt of his libertiniſm, and frequently avowed that he held all women to be fair game (as his lordſhip ſtyled this pretty ſport), and that they were all, without exception, to be won.
ref: 1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, “My Lord Leaves Us and His Evil Behind Him”, in The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. […] , volume I, London: […] Smith, Elder, & Company, […], →OCLC, page 299:
text: Instead of being a hardy body of "monk-knights," […] they led a life of luxury and libertinism, and were to be found in the most voluptuous courts of Europe.
ref: 1855, Washington Irving, “[The Knight of Malta.] The Grand Prior of Minorca. A Veritable Ghost Story.”, in Wolfert’s Roost and Other Papers, […], New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam & Co., […], →OCLC, page 133:
text: Only on college campuses do remnants of libertinism linger. That worries public-health officials, who are witnessing an explosion of sexually transmitted diseases.
ref: 1990 July 16, David Gross, Sophfronia Scott, “Proceeding With Caution”, in Time:
text: To facilitate their counter-attack, the targets of this critique sought to reduce the plurality of libertinisms to a simple libertine personality.
ref: 1993, Peter N. Miller, “‘Freethinking’ and ‘Freedom of Thought’ in Eighteenth-Century Britain”, in The Historical Journal, volume 36, number 3, page 601:
glosses: A lifestyle or pattern of behavior characterized by self-indulgence and lack of restraint, especially one involving sexual promiscuity and rejection of religious or other moral authority.
Related terms: libertinage
confluxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conflux
eutherians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eutherian
verdictive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more verdictive
form: most verdictive
Etymology: From verdict + -ive.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
pragmatics
sciences
glosses: Having the illocutionary force of issuing a judgment.
verdictive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verdictives
Etymology: From verdict + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Verdictives consist in the delivering of a finding, official or unofficial, upon evidence or reasons as to value or fact […]
ref: 1962, J.L. Austin, How To Do Things With Words, Oxford University Press, published 1965, page 152:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
pragmatics
sciences
glosses: A speech act whereby a judgment is issued.
Coordinate terms: sense: Other classical types of illocutionary acts
word: behabitive
sense: Other classical types of illocutionary acts
word: commissive
sense: Other classical types of illocutionary acts
word: exercitive
sense: Other classical types of illocutionary acts
word: expositive
verdictives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verdictive
goodman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goodmen
form: gomman
form: gudeman
Etymology: From Middle English godeman, equivalent to good + man.
Senses: glosses: A familiar appellation of civility for a man.
examples: text: Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 7:18-19:
text: ‘The gudeman,—he's done with t' paper, and you'll keep it for good and all.’
ref: 1863, Anthony Trollope, Rachel Ray:
text: The centre of the kitchen was the well-caumed fireside, the saut girnel in the jambs, the goodman's seat between the lowe and the candle, and pussy bawdrons not far from the warmth of the ace.
ref: 1899, Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, page 55:
glosses: A husband; the master of a house or family.
topgallant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /tɒpˈɡælənt/
/təˈɡælənt/
Forms: form: more topgallant
form: most topgallant
Senses: examples: text: the topgallant yards, braces, etc.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Situated above the topmast and below the royal mast.
examples: text: The consciences of top-gallant sparks.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
text: Delight, — top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 9”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: Of the most superior quality; the best of its kind.
topgallant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tɒpˈɡælənt/
/təˈɡælənt/
Forms: form: topgallants
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The sail suspended from the topmost section of a mast.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The topmost section of a mast; topgallant mast.
glosses: Anything elevated or splendid.
disfranchisement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disfranchisements
Etymology: From disfranchise + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of disfranchising.
glosses: The deprivation of the privileges and immunities of citizenship.
goodish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡʊdɪʃ/
Etymology: From good + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: I heard him speak, and he had a goodish accent, as of a clerk or shopwalker.
ref: 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXXIII, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:
glosses: Rather good than the contrary; not actually bad; tolerable.
examples: text: The white rock, visible enough above the brush, was still some eighth of a mile further down the spit, and it took me a goodish while to get up with it, crawling, often on all fours, among the scrub.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “part 5”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
glosses: Considerable; goodly.
Derived terms: goodishness
copartnership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copartnerships
Etymology: From copartner + -ship or co- + partnership.
Senses: glosses: The state of being a copartner or of having a joint interest in any matter.
glosses: A partnership or firm.
federative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fœderative
Senses: synonyms: federational
glosses: Uniting in a league; forming a confederacy, a federation; federal.
Derived terms: federatively
Federative Republic of Brazil
federative unit
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
chast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chasts
form: chasting
form: chasted
form: chasted
Senses: glosses: to chasten
chast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chast
form: most chast
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of chaste.
Derived terms: chastly
chastness
aguardiente
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aguardientes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish aguardiente.
Senses: glosses: A kind of brandy made in Spain and Portugal.
glosses: A strong alcoholic drink, especially pulque, found in Central and South America as well as the southwestern United States.
assertor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assertors
form: asserter
Etymology: From assert + -or.
Senses: examples: text: [N]o waver in Judgment, have I, though Gods mercy, ever been; but a conſtant aſſertor of, and ſufferer for my ſatisfiedneſs in, and adheſion to, the piety and probity of my breeding and belief, vvhich vvas ever, yet is, and I hope, through Gods grace, to death ſhall be, in point of Religion according to the Doctrine and Diſcipline of the Church of England.
ref: 1666 October 30 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Edward Waterhous[e], “To His Noble Friend and Kinsman, Sr. Edwarde Turno[u]r, Knight; Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons in this Present Parliament”, in A Short Narrative of the Late Dreadful Fire in London: […], London: […] W. G. for Rich[ard] Thrale […], and James Thrale […], published 1667, →OCLC, pages 188–189:
text: 2017 Mario von der Ruhr, et al: Religion and Wittgenstein's Legacy; →ISBN
When Wittgenstein says that he cannot contradict the assertor of a Last Judgement, he uses (repeatedly) the first person singular. There is no argument that the impossibility of his contradicting the man is a result of his not himself being a religious man, or not being a participant in any religious life, the result, that is, of some condition such that, if anyone were in that condition, he also would not be able to contradict the assertor. He mentions the case of an atheist who does contradict the assertor, and asks whether the atheist means the same by a Last Judgement as does the assertor, but replies that the criterion for meaning the same isn't clear.
glosses: One who asserts or avers.
examples: text: [I]t is a deed of higheſt charitie to help undeceive the people, and a vvork vvorthieſt your autoritie, in all things els authors, aſſertors and novv recoverers of our libertie, to deliver us, the only people of all Proteſtants left ſtill undeliverd, from the oppreſſions of a Simonious decimating clergie; […]
ref: 1659, J[ohn] M[ilton], “To the Parlament of the Commonwealth of England with the Dominions therof”, in Considerations Touching the Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings out of the Church. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcombe] for L[ivewell] Chapman […], →OCLC:
glosses: One who supports, affirms, defends, or vindicates; a champion.
Derived terms: assertress
beforetime
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈfɔːtʌɪm/
Etymology: From before + time.
Senses: examples: text: There was a certayne man called Simon, which beforetyme in the same cite, used witchecrafte and bewithched the people, sayinge that he was a man that coulde do greate thinges.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts:
text: Thou shalt see
Gold tarnished, and the grey above the green
And as the thing thou seest thy face shall be
And no more as the thing beforetime seen.
ref: 1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “A Ballad of Burdens”, in Poems and Ballads, London: J. C. Hotten, page 145, lines 33–36:
glosses: Formerly, previously.
algebraical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more algebraical
form: most algebraical
Etymology: From Latin algebraicus + -al or algebra + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to algebra or its laws.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Requiring a finite number of algebraic operations; the opposite of transcendental.
Derived terms: algebraically
unalgebraical
accidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of acedia (“sloth”).
canaille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˈnaɪ/
/kəˈneɪl/
Forms: form: canailles
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French canaille.
Senses: examples: text: I was on a rampart watching the enemy pitch their camp; and, seeing the crowd of idlers round the stream, I asked M. du Pont, commissary of the artillery, to send one cannon-shot among this canaille: he gave me a flat refusal, saying that all this sort of people was not worth the powder would be wasted on them.
ref: 1553, Ambroise Paré, “The Journey to Hesdin”, in Journeys In Diverse Places:
text: … whatever language he knows, he knows precisely; whatever word he pronounces, he pronounces rightly; above all, he is learned in the peerage of words; knows the words of true descent and ancient blood, at a glance, from words of modern canaille; …
ref: 1865, John Ruskin, "Of Kings' Treasuries", Unto This Last and Other Writings, Penguin: New York (1997), p. 262
text: The President's Cup, for all its high-sounding name, was one of the lowliest and most humble trophies offered for competition to the members of our club... It had been instituted by a kindly committee for the benefit of the canaille of our little golfing world, those retired military, naval and business men who withdraw to the country and take up golf in their fifties.
ref: 1937, P. G. Wodehouse, Lord Emsworth and Others, Woodstock: Overlook, published 2002, pages 99–100:
synonyms: word: canaille
word: commonality
word: commonalty
word: crowd
word: demos
word: everyone
word: general public
word: great unhosed
word: great unwashed
word: herd
word: hoi polloi
word: lower class
word: many
word: masses
word: mob
word: multitude
word: odds and sods
word: peasantry
word: plebs
word: populace
word: proletariat
word: rabble
word: rank and file
word: riffraff
word: third estate
word: trash
word: unwashed
word: unwashed masses
word: working class
glosses: The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.
glosses: Shorts or inferior flour.
encrease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encreases
Senses: examples: text: All counties, hundreds, wapentakes and trethings , shall stand at the old ferm, without any encrease, except in our Demesne Lands
ref: 1732, Paul de Rapin-Thoyras, The History of England:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of increase.
encrease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: encreases
form: encreasing
form: encreased
form: encreased
Senses: examples: text: […] the coldness of her lover, the loss of her reputation, all contributed to make her miserable, and to encrease the frenzical disposition of her mind.
ref: 1651, Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, Parthenissa:
text: I have reckoned upon a Medium, that a Child juſt born vvill vveigh 12 pounds, and in a ſolar Year if tollerably nurſed encreaſeth to 28 Pound.
ref: 1729, [Jonathan Swift], A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents, or the Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, Dublin: […] S[arah] Harding, […], →OCLC, page 7:
text: I saw ye Taffaties and Atlasses in ye warehouse, and gave directions concerning their severall colours and stripes, ordering Mr. Charnock to use his best endeavours to encrease their quantity; […]
ref: 1887, Sir William Hedges, Sir Henry Yule, The Diary of William Hedges, Esq.:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of increase.
impressment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɹɛsmənt/
Forms: form: impressments
Etymology: From impress + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: owing to the immense number of our sailors, and the extent of our commerce, we were enabled by impressment and other means, to fit out and man a powerful fleet in a few weeks
ref: 1808 February 3, Hansard:
text: Although it was a warm day, she seemed to think of nothing but the fire. I fancied she was jealous even of the saucepan on it; and I have reason to know that she took its impressment into the service of boiling my egg and broiling my bacon, in dudgeon […]
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, “I am Sent Away from Home”, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
text: A month later the governors of six more states, meeting in conference, enigmatically urged the impressment of slaves for “the public service as may be required.”
ref: 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford, published 2004, page 833:
text: […] in years when need was pressing, […] the government would order the construction of extra ships at specified points on the shores of the Black Sea and Mediterranean, and the impressment of craftsmen to do the work.
ref: 2002, Colin Imber, chapter 8, in The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650: The Structure of Power, Palgrave Macmillan, page 294:
coordinate_terms: conscription
draft#Noun
glosses: The act of seizing for public use; impressing into public service, especially military service and (most often) naval service.
Related terms: King's shilling
press gang
the world
take the shilling
pipkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pipkins
Etymology: From pipe + -kin.
Senses: glosses: A small earthen pot.
dispraise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈspɹeɪz/
Forms: form: dispraises
form: dispraising
form: dispraised
form: dispraised
Etymology: From Old French despreisier. Doublet of disprize.
Senses: examples: text: They spake agaynst it, and dispraysed it, raylinge on it.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts:
text: Although I dispraise not the defence of just immunities, yet love my peace better, if that were all.
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
text: "What," thought Edward, "the poet says in praise of one beauty, I say in dispraise of another: 'Her eyes, like suns, the rash beholder strike, But, like the sun, they shine on all alike.'
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 310:
text: He became familiar with that habit of mind which dispraises what it most envies and admires: with that habit of mind which desires only what it cannot have.
ref: 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 157:
text: Mira could not find a single article dispraising him.
ref: 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 9:
glosses: To notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage, to criticize.
Derived terms: dispraiser
dispraise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈspɹeɪz/
Forms: form: dispraises
Etymology: From Old French despreisier. Doublet of disprize.
Senses: examples: text: Their censure did not much affect him; for the good-natured young man was disposed to accept with considerable humility the dispraises of others.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 42, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: Pierre Petit, in 1683, devoted a long Latin poem to his dis-praise; and Parnell's charming Ode is well known.
ref: 1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 60:
glosses: Blame; reproach; disapproval; criticism.
beechen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːt͡ʃən/
Etymology: From Middle English bechen, from Old English bēċen (“made of beechwood, beechen”), Proto-West Germanic *bōkīn, equivalent to beech + -en. Cognate with Dutch beuken (“beechen”).
Senses: examples: text: Now withered lay the hemlock-sheaves,
And one by one with sighing sound
Whispering fell the beechen leaves
In the wintry woodland wavering.
ref: 1988, J.R.R. Tolkien, Song of Beren and Lúthien:
glosses: Consisting or made of the wood or bark of the beech tree.
cark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑː(ɹ)k/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: carks
form: carking
form: carked
form: carked
Etymology: From Middle English carken (“to be anxious, worry”, intransitive), from Old English *carcian ("to be sorrowful, worry"; found in becarcian (“to worry about, care for”)), a frequentative form of Old English carian (“to care”), equivalent to care + -k.
The Middle English carken, also charken (“to load (sth.); to bear (crops); to burden, harass”, transitive), from Old Northern French carquier (“to load, burden”), from Latin carricāre (“to load”), related to Old French chargier (“to load”), is a different word often confused with the above.
Senses: examples: text: [W]ho vvould not rather Sleep Quietly upon a Hammock, vvithout either Cares in his Head, or Crudities in his Stomach, then lye Carking upon a Bed of State, vvith the Qualms and Tvvinges that accompany Surfeits and Exceſs?
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[Miscellany Fables.] Fab[le] CCCLXXXIII. A Spider and the Gout [Reflexion].”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 355:
glosses: To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles.
examples: text: Carnal pleasures are the sins of youth: ambition and the love of power, the sins of middle age: covetousness and carking cares, the crimes of old age.
ref: 1831, Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible, Comment on 2 Timothy 2: 22
text: [W]e shall see how in morbid melancholy this sense of the unreality of things may become a carking pain, and even lead to suicide.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lecture 3”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:
text: Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
ref: 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0056:
glosses: To bring worry, vexation, or anxiety.
examples: text: Why for sluggards cark and moil?
ref: 1849, Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke's Song:
glosses: To labor anxiously.
Derived terms: overcark
cark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑː(ɹ)k/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: carks
Etymology: From Middle English cark, kark (“worry”), from Old English carc (“sorrow, worry”).
Senses: examples: text: His heauie head, deuoide of carefull carke, / Whose sences all were straight benumbd and starke.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 44:
text: Fling cark and care aside.
ref: 1832, William Motherwell, They Come! The Merry Summer Months:
text: Freedom from the cares of money and the cark of fashion.
ref: 1887, R. D. Blackmore, Springhaven:
glosses: A noxious or corroding worry.
glosses: The state of being filled with worry.
cark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑː(ɹ)k/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: carks
form: carking
form: carked
form: carked
Etymology: From caulk.
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of caulk.
Related terms: cark it
untime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: untimes
form: un-time
Etymology: From Middle English untime, untyme, ontyme, from Old English untīma (“an unseasonable time”), from Proto-Germanic *untīmô, equivalent to un- + time. Cognate with Old Norse útími (dialectal Norwegian otime).
Senses: examples: text: Actually, his apocalypse is a reverse cosmogony: he features himself as a monstrous Leviathan swallowing all the faithful, and the Untime celebrated by "unceasing" clock-chiming seals the reign of death and the return to pre-cosmogonic chaos. Death, not life, is what the imam has to offer to the faithful of Desh.
ref: 1999, Pierre François, Inlets of the Soul:
text: The body of Al-Lat has shrivelled on the grass, leaving behind only a dark stain; and now every clock in the capital city of Desh begins to chime, and goes on unceasingly, beyond twelve, beyond twenty-four, beyond one thousand and one, announcing the end of Time, the hour that is beyond measuring, the hour of the exile's return, of the victory of water over wine, of the commencement of the Untime of the Imam.
ref: 2000, Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses:
text: Later though, after about two weeks in untime, Finn began to get confused, and my job changed to simply keeping him straight.
ref: 2011, Adeline Radloff, Sidekick:
text: Nirvana, as we shall see, is a time rather than a place, but it is better still described as an un-time.
ref: 2014, William Gallois, Time, Religion and History:
text: While everyone else is frozen in untime Katie is unaffected and therefore acts as his sidekick in his efforts to avert disaster, death and devastation—[…]
ref: 2015, Judith Inggs, Transition and Transgression:
glosses: The absence of time; timelessness.
glosses: A wrong time; an unsuitable or improper time.
raw_tags: used in plural
Synonyms: sense: absence of time
word: atemporality
word: extratemporality
word: timelessness
untime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: untimes
form: untiming
form: untimed
form: untimed
form: un-time
Etymology: From Middle English untime, untyme, ontyme, from Old English untīma (“an unseasonable time”), from Proto-Germanic *untīmô, equivalent to un- + time. Cognate with Old Norse útími (dialectal Norwegian otime).
Senses: examples: text: […] which untimes the pleasant melodies of musical harmony, […]
ref: 2012 [c. 1445], William, transl. Hardy, chapter 57, in A Collection of the Chronicles and Ancient Histories of Great Britain, Now Called England, volume 1, book 2, Cambridge University Press, translation of Recueil des croniques et anchiennes istories de la Grant Bretaigne by Jean de Wavrin, →ISBN, page 258:
glosses: To cause to be done at the wrong time.
untime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untime
form: most untime
form: un-time
Etymology: From Middle English untime, from Old English untīme.
Senses: glosses: Untimely.
Synonyms: ill-timed
inopportune
untimely
banian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banians
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of banyan.
fugient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fugient
form: most fugient
Etymology: From Latin fugientem, present participle of fugo (“flee”).
Senses: examples: text: Thus, alongside of the church militant with its prisons, dragonnades, and inquisition methods, we have the church fugient, as one might call it, with its hermitages, monasteries, and sectarian organizations, both churches pursuing the same object—to unify the life, and simplify the spectacle presented to the soul.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lectures XIV and XV: The Value of Saintliness”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 349:
glosses: Fleeing.
Lévy flight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lévy flights
Etymology: Named after French mathematician Paul Pierre Lévy (1886–1971).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: Lévy walk
glosses: A type of random walk in which the increments are distributed according to a “heavy-tailed” distribution i.e. there are a significant number of large increments.
Related terms: Lévy glass
Lévy glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lévy glasses
Etymology: Named after French mathematician Paul Pierre Lévy (1886–1971).
Senses: glosses: An inhomogeneous medium, containing small spheres of varying size, in which the path of a light ray follows a Lévy flight.
polyubiquitination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyubiquitinations
Etymology: From poly- + ubiquitination.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The addition of a series of ubiquitin molecules to another protein.
Related terms: polyubiquitin
polyubiquitinate
polyubiquitinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + ubiquitinated.
Senses: glosses: ubiquitinated with a series of ubiquitin molecules
closed caption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: closed captions
Etymology: "Closed" originally indicated that such captions were by default not visible until activated (opened) by the viewer turning them on, in contrast to "open captions" which are embedded in the video itself, visible to all.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Text which can be displayed on a television or other video screen with suitable equipment, usually a transcription or description of audio material.
Related terms: CC
closed captioning
open caption
dirhombicosidodecahedrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dirhombicosidodecahedron
closed captioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: close captioning
Etymology: "Closed" originally indicated that such captions were by default not visible until activated (opened) by the viewer turning them on, in contrast to "open captions" which are embedded in the video itself, visible to all.
Senses: examples: text: ... the closed captioning said, "There were no survivors of flight 815." [Note from Season 3: turns out it was "We're the survivors of flight 815."]
ref: 2015 September 18, James O'Ehley, Erin Willard, The Take2 Guide to Lost: Mandatory television generated a sweeping dialogue … and here it is., Take2 Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: The transcription, either verbatim or in edited form, of the dialogue and sometimes sound effects of a program, displayed onscreen and synchronized with the program, most frequently used by the deaf and language learners. Closed captions are encoded invisibly, and displayed by a decoder.
glosses: The analogue standard for this transcription, which analogue media like videotapes, laser discs, and cable television use, but also digital forms like satellite television and DVDs.
Coordinate terms: audio description
described video
Derived terms: CC
Related terms: captioning
closed caption
open captioning
transient ischaemic attack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transient ischaemic attacks
Senses: synonyms: word: TIA
glosses: Alternative spelling of transient ischemic attack.
PEX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: XPE
XLPE
hypernyms: PE
polyethylene
polyethene
<
polymer#Noun
plastic#Noun
<
substance#Noun
compound#Noun
material#Noun
coordinate_terms: word: HDPE
english: forms of PE
translation: forms of PE
word: LDPE
word: ;
english: polymers used for plumbing pipes
translation: polymers used for plumbing pipes
word: ABS
word: CPVC
word: PVC
glosses: Acronym of cross-linked polyethylene.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: PHIGS Extension to X: an early Unix 3D graphics API.
desi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more desi
form: most desi
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Desi.
desi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Desi.
examples: text: There are two types of chickpea, desi (small seeded, angular and coloured) and kabuli (large seeded, ram-shaped and beige coloured). No precise information is available about the division of the 11 million hectares under chickpea between desis and kabulis, but an approximation is that more than 85 per cent of the area is covered with the desis type and the rest with kabuli.
ref: 1984, J.R. Witcombe, Genetic Resources and Their Exploitation:
text: These lighter coloured desis are now generally favoured by most markets as they look fresher, despite the majority of desis still ending up dehulled.
ref: 2007, Shyam S. Yadav, Chickpea Breeding and Management, page 568:
glosses: A particular variety of cultivated chickpea.
Coordinate terms: kabuli
pedicellate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pedicel + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Having (or supported by) a pedicel.
Derived terms: pedicellately
temnospondyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: temnospondyls
Etymology: From translingual Temnospondyli, from Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”) + σπόνδυλος (spóndulos), Ionic/Attic form of σφόνδυλος (sphóndulos, “vertebra”).
Senses: examples: text: Experts disagree over whether temnospondyls were ancestral to modern amphibians (frogs, salamanders and caecilians), or whether the whole group died out without leaving descendants.
text: Nigerpeton is a temnospondyl, more closely related to modern amphibians than to amniotes, but far bigger than today's diminutive amphibians.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 178:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of many extinct primitive amphibians (labyrinthodonts) of the order Temnospondyli, from the Carboniferous, Permian and Triassic periods.
Related terms: lepospondyl
stereospondyl
brachiosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brachiosaurs
Senses: glosses: Any of several massive, herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs, of the genus Brachiosaurus, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
Related terms: brachiosaurid
dissorophid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dissorophids
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δῐσσός (dĭssós) ("double, twofold") + Ancient Greek ὀροφή (orophḗ) ("ceiling, roof") + -id.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several extinct temnospondyl amphibians, of the family †Dissorophidae, from the Pennsylvanian epochs and Permian period
lissamphibian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lissamphibians
Etymology: Lissamphibia + -an
Senses: glosses: Any of the living amphibians of the subclass Lissamphibia, including the frog and salamander families.
Hypernyms: amphibian
Hyponyms: albanerpetontid
batrachian
caecilian
lissamphibian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lissamphibian
form: most lissamphibian
Etymology: Lissamphibia + -an
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of these creatures.
fist-size
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fist sized
Senses: glosses: Having the size (and approximate form) of a fist
Synonyms: fist-sized
amphibamid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amphibamids
Senses: glosses: Any of several extinct temnospondyls, of the family †Amphibamidae.
salientian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salientians
Etymology: From Salientia + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any amphibian of the clade Salientia; frogs and toads, those of order Anura and extinct relatives of other orders.
salientian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more salientian
form: most salientian
Etymology: From Salientia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to these animals.
Hypernyms: batrachian
Hyponyms: anuran
caudatan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caudatans
Etymology: Caudata + -an
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any amphibian of the order Caudata; the salamanders
caudatan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more caudatan
form: most caudatan
Etymology: Caudata + -an
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to these animals
pleckstrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Abbreviation of platelet + leukocyte C kinase substrate + KSTR (amino acids) + string.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein found in platelets
dogpile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒɡ pʌɪl/
ipa: /ˈdɔɡ ˌpaɪl/
ipa: /ˈdɑɡ ˌpaɪl/
Forms: form: dogpiles
form: dog pile
form: dog-pile
Etymology: From dog + pile. In reference to piles of people, originally as a noun after earlier pig pile. In reference to dog excrement, a clipping of pile of shit.
Senses: examples: text: The bottom man of a 'dog pile' in a fraternity house scuffle is in a hospital with a neck dislocation.
ref: 1948 November 21, Los Angeles Times, Sect. i, p. 20
glosses: A disorderly pile of people formed by jumping upon a victim.
examples: text: Purdy tucked the pigskin under his elbow and cantered over a dog-pile for a tally.
ref: 1921 November 19, The Nebraska State Journal, page 3:
text: Unscrambling the dogpile of objects can be messy.
ref: 1993, Christopher G. Jones, “Object-Oriented Analysis with CASE”, in Computer-aided Software Engineering, →ISBN, page 348:
glosses: Any similarly disorderly pile of people or things.
examples: text: Mrs. Brown cleaned her lawn up bright and early each day;
Picked up all the dog piles so her children could play.
ref: 1950 March 6, The Tri-City Herald, page 6:
glosses: A pile of dogshit.
glosses: The situation where many participants attack the same user (on a discussion forum or similar).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A cache stampede.
Synonyms: sense: a pile of people
english: upon a single victim
translation: upon a single victim
word: pig pile
sense: a pile of people
word: scrum
topics: rugby
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sense: a pile of people
word: ruck
sense: a pile of people
word: stacks on the mill
topics: football
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sense: a pile of people
word: stacks on
topics: football
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sense: a pile of people
word: pile-up
sense: a pile of dogshit
word: dogshit
Related terms: more sacks to the mill
stack-upon-the-kill