cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Argo Navis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Argō nāvis, the mythical "ship Argo".
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: Argo
glosses: A former constellation of the southern sky, said to represent the mythical ship Argo. In 1763, it was divided into the three new constellations: Carina (keel), Puppis (stern), and Vela (sail).
Related terms: Pyxis
sufficiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sufficiencies
form: sufficiencie
Senses: glosses: The quality or condition of being sufficient.
examples: text: But the Eastern front of the Allies was far more vulnerable. Russia could not begin to supply herself with a sufficiency of large guns and of heavy munitionment for them.
ref: 1916, Hilaire Belloc, A General Sketch of the European War: The second phase, page 388:
glosses: An adequate amount.
Synonyms: enoughness
sufficience
Derived terms: haplosufficiency
insufficiency
nonsufficiency
self-sufficiency
unsufficiency
elephantiasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛlɪfənˈtaɪəsɪs/
Forms: form: elephantiases
form: elephantitis
form: elephantitus
Etymology: From Latin elephantiasis or directly from Ancient Greek ἐλεφᾰντῐ́ᾱσῐς (elephăntĭ́āsĭs).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A complication of chronic filariasis, in which nematode worms block the lymphatic vessels, usually in the legs or scrotum, causing extreme enlargement of the infected area.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of leprosy.
synonyms: word: leprosy
Derived terms: angioelephantiasis
Arabian elephantiasis
congenital elephantiasis
elephantiasic
elephantiasis Arabum
elephantiasis chirurgica
elephantiasis gingivae
elephantiasis neuromatosa
elephantiasis nostras
elephantiasis oculi
elephantiasis scroti
elephantiasis telangiectodes
elephantiasis vulvae
filarial elephantiasis
gingival elephantiasis
Greek elephantiasis
lymphangiectatic elephantiasis
nevoid elephantiasis
oschelephantiasis
Related terms: elephantic
caerphilly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛːˈfɪli/
ipa: [kɑːɨɹˈfɪlɪ]
Etymology: Named after the town of Caerphilly, Wales.
Senses: glosses: A light-colored, crumbly cheese made from cow's milk.
Carina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. From Latin carīna (“the keel of a ship”)
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble the keel of a ship. It contains the star Canopus, the second brightest star in the night sky. Until 1763, it was part of a larger constellation, Argo Navis.
Derived terms: Carinae
Related terms: Argo
Argo Navis
Puppis
Pyxis
Vela
Carina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Name of a fourth century martyr, feminine of Latin carinus, derivative of carus "beloved"; also a latinization of Karina and Karin (= Catherine) in northern Europe.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin occasionally used in English.
filariasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪəsɪs
Forms: form: filariases
Etymology: From filaria + -iasis.
Senses: glosses: Any disease common in tropical and subtropical countries resulting from infestation of the lymphatic system with nematode worms of the superfamily Filarioidea, transmitted by mosquitoes: characterised by inflammation.
Hypernyms: helminthiasis
Hyponyms: alt: Bancroftian filariasis
word: lymphatic filariasis caused by Wuchereria bancrofti
word: Brugia malayi
word: and Brugia timori
alt: eye worm, Loa loa filariasis
word: subcutaneous filariasis caused by Loa loa
word: Mansonella streptocerca
english: river blindness
translation: river blindness
word: and Onchocerca volvulus
word: serous cavity filariasis caused by Mansonella perstans and Mansonella ozzardi
Related terms: elephantiasis
filaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪˈlɛəɹi.ə/
ipa: /fəˈlɛɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Forms: form: filariae
form: filarias
Etymology: 19th century, from translingual Filaria (name of type genus), from Latin filum (“thread”).
Senses: glosses: Any of the parasitic nematode worms of superfamily Filarioidea that lives in the blood of vertebrates and is transmitted by insects: the cause of filariasis.
Hypernyms: sense: Filarioidea
word: roundworm
Derived terms: filarial
filariasis
filaricide
filariform
macrofilaria
microfilaria
pseudofilaria
Canopus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈnoʊpəs/
enpr: kă-nōʹpŭs
Etymology: From Latin Canōpus.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A white bright giant, visually the second brightest star in the night sky, a part of the southern constellation of Carina.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The pilot of King Menelaus's ship in the Iliad.
glosses: An ancient coastal city in northern Egypt, known for extravagance.
Synonyms: sense: star
alt: Bayer latinized form
word: Alpha Carinae
sense: star
roman: alpha
english: Bayer designation
translation: Bayer designation
word: α Carinae
sense: star
english: Bayer abbreviated form
translation: Bayer abbreviated form
word: α Car
Derived terms: canopic jar
Canopus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈnoʊpəs/
enpr: kă-nōʹpŭs
Forms: form: Canopuses
Etymology: From Latin Canōpus.
Senses: glosses: A canopic jar.
hookworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʊkˌwɝm/
Forms: form: hookworms
Etymology: From hook + worm.
Senses: examples: text: A heavy infestation of more than 100 hookworms can suck up as much as 16 fluid ounces of blood a day. Since hookworm larvae can be transmitted through a mother's milk, infestations can kill infants.
ref: 1996 October 6, William Hathaway, “PARASITE LINKS MEN IN DARING VENTURE”, in Hartford Courant, archived from the original on 28 Nov 2020:
hypernyms: roundworm
<
worm
;
parasite
glosses: Any of various parasitic bloodsucking roundworms which cause disease, especially the species Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus, having hooked mouthparts and entering their hosts by boring through the skin.
examples: text: a case of hookworm
synonyms: miner's worm
miner's anaemia
;
miner's disease
hypernyms: helminthiasis
helminthosis
<
disease
<
condition
glosses: Infection with one of these parasites.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Necator americanus
word: American hookworm
word: hookwormy
Related terms: english: fungal infection
translation: fungal infection
word: ringworm
hosts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hoʊsts/
ipa: /həʊsts/
rhymes: -oʊsts
rhymes: -əʊsts
Senses: glosses: plural of host
hosts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hoʊsts/
ipa: /həʊsts/
rhymes: -oʊsts
rhymes: -əʊsts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of host
carina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹiːnə/
ipa: /kəˈɹaɪnə/
rhymes: -iːnə
rhymes: -aɪnə
Forms: form: carinas
form: carinae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin carīna (“keel”). Doublet of careen and carene.
Senses: glosses: A longitudinal ridge or projection like the keel of a boat.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Part of a papilionaceous flower consisting of two petals, commonly united, which encloses the organs of fructification.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The keel of the glume of grasses.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The principal nerve of a sepal.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: The keel of the breastbone of birds.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of several features that have a projecting central ridge.
Derived terms: carina apex
carinal
carination
carina tracheae
cariniform
carinula
strathspey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪ
Forms: form: strathspeys
Etymology: After Strathspey, valley of the river Spey.
Senses: glosses: A Scottish dance with gliding steps, slower than a reel.
examples: text: He muttered an exclamation in Gaelic, strode across the floor, and then, with an air of dogged resolution, as if prepared to see the scene to an end, sate himself down on the oak table and whistled a strathspey.
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter IX, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, pages 197–198:
text: Arms are raised, the cheers are deafening, the pipes turn to a strathspey and a whole section of the crowd launches into a mad jig.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 239:
glosses: A piece of music composed for or in the rhythm of this dance.
stratocumulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stratocumuli
Etymology: From strato- + cumulus.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A principal low-level cloud type, predominantly stratiform, in the form of a gray and/or whitish layer or patch, which nearly always has dark parts and is nonfibrous.
sippet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪpɪt
Forms: form: sippets
Etymology: First attested in the 16th century, as a diminutive of sop. See -et.
Senses: examples: text: The best sauce for green geese is the juice of sorrel and sugar, mixed together with a few scladed feaberries and served upon sippets
ref: 1615, Gervase Markham, The English Huswife:
text: Then have sippets finely carved, and some slices of French bread in the bottom of the dish, […].
ref: 1685, Robert May, The accomplisht cook:
text: Garnish your dish with sippets, lemon, and a few pickled mushrooms.
ref: 1764, Elizabeth Moxon, English Housewifery Exemplified:
text: Serve with small sippets of bread fried in butter.
ref: 1859-1861, Mrs. Isabella Beeton, The Book of Household Management:
text: The ghost of Mr. Woodhouse himself may stare and gasp at being told that this awful preparation, this culinary corpse-reviver, apparently suited only to chalcenterous persons or those at the point of death, is a very simple mutton broth with sippets in it.
ref: 1889 November 9, The Saturday Review, London, page 538, column 1:
glosses: A small piece of something, especially a piece of toast or fried bean eaten with soup or gravy.
Related terms: snippet
Ghia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Carrozzeria Ghia SpA, an Italian company named after one of its founders.
Senses: glosses: part of the name of several models of Ford motor cars.
deregistration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: deregistrations
Etymology: From de- + registration.
Senses: glosses: Removal of registration, especially
glosses: Removal of registration, especially:
The process by which an employee is removed from work registrant status.
registrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: registrants
Senses: glosses: One who registers something or is registered.
Pyxis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named by the French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille in 1763, and originally called Pyxis Nautica (“nautical compass”), from Latin pyxis (“little box”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A spring constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble the compass of a ship. It is associated with the larger Argo Navis, although it was never officially part of that constellation.
wikipedia: Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille
Derived terms: Pyxidis
Related terms: Argo
Argo Navis
Carina
Puppis
Vela
kaffir lime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæfəɹˌlaɪm/
Forms: form: kaffir limes
Senses: glosses: Citrus hystrix, a species of fragrant, small lime native to Southeast Asia, the leaves of which are used in cooking for their citrus flavor.
Synonyms: kieffer lime
makrut
magood
combava
regulo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: 20th century, from Regulo, trademark for a type of thermostatic control on gas ovens.
Senses: coordinate_terms: gas mark
glosses: any of a number of temperatures to which a gas oven may be set. e.g. regulo 4
regulo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regulos
Senses: glosses: a colonially-appointed chief in parts of Africa
temperatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of temperature
pyxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪksɪs/
Forms: form: pyxides
Etymology: From Latin pyxis (“small box”). Doublet of box, piseog, and pyx.
Senses: glosses: A small box.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: pyxidium
glosses: A capsule in which the lid separates from the top of the fruit to release the seeds.
glosses: A nautical compass.
topics: Christianity
glosses: The box in which ashes are stored for Ash Wednesday.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: acetabulum.
ashwagandha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌʌʃwəˈɡʌndə/
Forms: form: ashwaganda
form: ashwaghanda
form: ashwaghandha
Etymology: From Sanskrit अश्वगन्ध (aśvagandha, “horse’s smell”).
Senses: glosses: Withania somnifera, a stout shrub that produces red berry-like fruit, native to India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Synonyms: sense: Withania somnifera
word: Indian ginseng
sense: Withania somnifera
word: winter cherry
sense: Withania somnifera
word: poison gooseberry
sense: Withania somnifera
word: ajagandha
sense: Withania somnifera
word: kanaje hindi
sense: Withania somnifera
word: samm al ferakh
re-entry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: re-entries
form: reentry
form: reëntry
Etymology: From re- + entry.
Senses: examples: text: a re-entry into public life
text: Shortly after its re-entry into traffic, it was named County Durham on October 1 that year, although it was denamed later.
ref: 2024 January 10, Chris Gilson, “RAIL's famous five...”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 26:
glosses: The act of entering again.
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The return of a spacecraft into the Earth's atmosphere.
topics: law
glosses: The reestablishment of possession under a right or rights reserved in a previous conveyance.
topics: law
glosses: The act of retaking possession of land, etc.; the entry by a lessor upon the premises leased, on failure of the tenant to pay rent or perform the covenants in the lease.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of a ukulele, a break in the pitch order of strings.
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The reactivation of (a region of) myocardial tissue by a single, returning impulse.
topics: bridge
card-games
games
glosses: The act of retaking the lead by winning a trick.
topics: bridge
card-games
games
glosses: A re-entry card.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: A trick involving climbing a wave and then returning back down its face.
Derived terms: reo
Related terms: reentrant
eye-witness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eye-witnesses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eyewitness.
able-bodied seaman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: able-bodied seamen
form: able seaman
form: AB
form: a.b.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A seaman, especially one in the merchant navy, who has been trained or certified in all routine duties; a member of the Royal Navy rated between ordinary seaman and leading seaman or boatswain's mate.
a.b.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Abbreviation of able-bodied seaman.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Able-bodied seaman.
a.b.
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of as before.
able seaman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: able seamen
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Synonym of able-bodied seaman.
synonyms: word: able-bodied seaman
able rating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: able ratings
Senses: qualifier: Royal Navy
glosses: A rating who is qualified to perform certain duties of seamanship.
seamanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiː.mənˌʃɪp/
Forms: form: seamanships
Etymology: From seaman + -ship.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Skill in, and knowledge of, the work of navigating, maintaining, and operating a vessel at sea.
Related terms: airmanship
navigating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of navigate
postpositive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + positive.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Placed after the word modified, either immediately after, as in two men abreast, or as part of a complement, as in those two men are bad.
raw_tags: of an adjective or other modifier
Derived terms: postpostively
postpositive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postpositives
Etymology: From post- + positive.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A postpositive modifier.
Coordinate terms: prepositive
Derived terms: postpositive adjective
postpositively
Related terms: english: after a noun
translation: after a noun
word: post-nominal
word: predicative
cleansing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɛn.zɪŋ/
Forms: form: more cleansing
form: most cleansing
Senses: examples: text: Apply the cleansing cream to your skin.
glosses: That cleanses.
Synonyms: word: detergent
word: smectic
Derived terms: cleansingly
uncleansing
cleansing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɛn.zɪŋ/
Forms: form: cleansings
Senses: examples: text: Regular skin cleansing may help to prevent acne.
glosses: The process of removing dirt, toxins etc.
Derived terms: colon cleansing
ethnic cleansing
widow cleansing
cleansing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɛn.zɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cleanse
abnegators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abnegator
Falstaffian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Falstaffian
form: most Falstaffian
Etymology: From Falstaff + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: In battle, he self-deprecatingly recorded his own Falstaffian flight – 'fleeing is also an act of courage' – and probably the most 'strange and comic' scatological scene in military history.
ref: 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 364:
glosses: Having the traits of the comic character Falstaff: especially, corpulent and jolly.
Falstaff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Falstaffs
Etymology: From the name of a character invented by William Shakespeare for his Henry IV plays, and who also appeared in The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Senses: glosses: A fat and jolly knight.
wikipedia: The Merry Wives of Windsor
William Shakespeare
Derived terms: Falstaffian
Edwardian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dɪən
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dɪən
homophone: Edwardean
Forms: form: more Edwardian
form: most Edwardian
Etymology: From Edward + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: If the kind of network we envisage is to be established, it would be unwise to begin any of its services hurriedly with older stock, which, however admirable in its day, now has an air of faded Edwardian splendour that is out of joint with the times.
ref: 1962 December, “A new Pullman era?”, in Modern Railways, page 362:
text: In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
ref: 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:
text: This delightful four-platform station [Bognor Regis] is still controlled by semaphore signals and boasts a lovely red-brick Edwardian building with steel canopies, crowned with a clocktower which dates from 1902.
ref: 2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 55:
glosses: Of the period in British history from circa 1901 to 1910, when Edward VII ruled the British Empire.
Edwardian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dɪən
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dɪən
homophone: Edwardean
Forms: form: Edwardians
Etymology: From Edward + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: So he began, being an Edwardian, by describing accurately and minutely the sort of house Hilda lived in, and the sort of house she saw from the window. House property was the common ground from which the Edwardians found it easy to proceed to intimacy.
ref: 1924, Virginia Woolf, “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown”, in [Leonard Woolf], editor, Collected Essays, volume I, London: Hogarth Press, published 1966, →OCLC, page 331:
glosses: A person from the Edwardian era.
trepid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛp.ɪd/
Forms: form: more trepid
form: most trepid
Etymology: From Latin trepidus (“anxious”).
Senses: examples: text: the trepid mouse
glosses: Timid, timorous, fearful.
Derived terms: trepidly
trepidity
trepidation
annulling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈnʌlɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of annul
annulling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈnʌlɪŋ/
Forms: form: annullings
Senses: glosses: An annulment.
Carolingian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæ.ɹəˈlɪn.dʒɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˌkæɹ.əˈlɪn.dʒi.ən/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˌkɛɹ.əˈlɪn.dʒi.ən/
rhymes: -ɪndʒiən
Etymology: An eponym from Charles Martel, Frankish statesman and grandfather of Charlemagne. Reshaping of earlier Carlovingian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the dynasty that ruled parts of western Europe from the 7th to the 9th centuries.
glosses: A style of script: Carolingian minuscule
Carolingian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæ.ɹəˈlɪn.dʒɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˌkæɹ.əˈlɪn.dʒi.ən/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˌkɛɹ.əˈlɪn.dʒi.ən/
rhymes: -ɪndʒiən
Forms: form: Carolingians
Etymology: An eponym from Charles Martel, Frankish statesman and grandfather of Charlemagne. Reshaping of earlier Carlovingian.
Senses: glosses: Any member of a Frankish noble family with its origins in the Arnulfing and Pippinid clans of the seventh century.
X chromosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: X chromosomes
form: X-chromosome
Etymology: Named by Hermann Henking in 1890 from x (signifying the unknown) due to some baffling properties he had observed. The brief resemblance in the appearance of the X and Y chromosomes to the letters "X" and "Y" respectively during cell division is entirely coincidental.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A mammalian sex chromosome: in the XY sex-determination system, cells of females typically have a pair of X chromosomes, while cells of males typically have an X and a Y.
Related terms: X-linked trait
Y chromosome
ordinances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːd(ɪ)nənsɪz/
ipa: /ˈɔɹd(ɪ)nənsɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of ordinance
assumably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From assumable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: presumably; as one may assume
assumable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From assume + -able.
Senses: examples: an assumable premise
glosses: Capable of being assumed, or taken to be true.
examples: a disguise assumable by anybody
glosses: Capable of being assumed, or taken on.
glosses: Of a mortgage: such that a subsequent homebuyer can take on the existing balance, interest rate, and other terms.
Derived terms: assumably
unassumable
buttery bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buttery bars
Etymology: buttery (“a room where the butts or casks of wine are kept”) + bar
Senses: examples: text: I never heard. I heard also that Master Vicar of Croydon, and all the remnant of the priests of London that were sent for, were sworn, and that they had such favor at the Council's hand that they were not lingered nor made to dance any long attendance to their travail and cost, as suitors were sometimes wont to be, but were sped apace to their great comfort so far forth that Master Vicar of Croydon, either for gladness or for dryness, or else that it might be seen (quod ille notus erat pontifici) went to my Lord's buttery bar and called for drink, and drank (valde familiariter).
ref: 1534, Thomas More's Account, in a letter to his daughter Margaret Roper, of his First Interrogation (before the King's Commissioners at Lambeth, April 13, 1534):
text: SIR ANDREW An you part so, mistress, I would I might never draw sword again. Fair lady, do you think you have fools in hand?
MARIA Sir, I have not you by the hand.
SIR ANDREW Marry, but you shall have; and here's my hand.
MARIA Now, sir, 'thought is free:' I pray you, bring your hand to the buttery-bar and let it drink.
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: The following Copy of an Order issued by Henry VIII, for the daily provision of one of the Ladies of Honour to Catherine of Arragon, while it sets forth the privileges of the office at that time, serves also to illustrate very strikingly the manners of that age.
" We will and command you to allow daily from henceforth unto our right dear and well-beloved the Lady Lucy, into her chamber, the diet and fare hereafter ensuing.[…]
" Item, at dinner, a piece of beef, a stroke of roast, and a reward, at our said kitchen, a cast of chete bread at our pantry bar, and a gallon of ale at our buttery bar.
" Item, at afternoon a manchet of bread at our pantry bar, and half a gallon of ale at our buttery bar.
ref: 1838, William John Thoms, The Book of the Court, page 349:
glosses: A shelf attached to the top of the bottom half of the door to the buttery, on which the person tapping the butts would place full cups for the drinkers.
Y chromosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Y chromosomes
form: Y-chromosome
Etymology: Named by Nettie Stevens in 1905 using the next letter in sequence following the naming by Hermann Henking in 1890 of the X chromosome. The brief resemblance in the appearance of the X and Y chromosomes to the letters "X" and "Y" respectively during cell division is entirely coincidental.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A mammalian sex chromosome: in the XY sex-determination system, cells of females typically have a pair of X chromosomes, while cells of males typically have an X and a Y.
wikipedia: Y chromosome
Related terms: X chromosome
X-chromosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: X-chromosomes
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of X chromosome.
British Empire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the British Empire
Senses: examples: text: Violence and racism were the reality of the colonial experience and no wonder that the sun never set on the British Empire because even God couldn't trust the English in the dark.
ref: 2015, Shashi Tharoor, "Britain Does Owe Reparations", 00:05:16
text: Two hundred and forty years have passed since the 1781 Yorktown Campaign, a campaign that was a decisive victory for the Continental Army and forced the British Empire to reach concessions with the 13 Colonies.
ref: 2021-2022 Winter, Matthew R. Prescott, John P. Ruedisueli, “The Relevance of the 1781 Yorktown Campaign”, in SAR Magazine, volume 116, number 3, Louisville, KY: Sons of the American Revolution, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20, column 1:
text: In 1920, the British Empire covered over a quarter of the Earth's surface area.
glosses: The United Kingdom and its overseas dependencies and colonies.
wikipedia: Colonial Office
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
George VI of England
Handover of Hong Kong
Suez Crisis
Victoria of England
Coordinate terms: Commonwealth of Nations
Y-chromosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Y-chromosomes
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of Y chromosome.
dependencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dependency
trust territories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trust territory
capitalised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: capitalized
Senses: antonyms: uncapitalized
noncapitalized
;
lowercase#Adjective
lowercased
glosses: In capital letters.
antonyms: uncapitalized
noncapitalized
qualifier: company; idea for a new business; company; idea for a new business
glosses: Being supplied with capital (such as money and equipment).
raw_tags: of a business
Related terms: ALL CAPS
AlTeRnaTinG cApS
downstyle
Headline Style
Initial Caps
Sentence case
Title Case
Upstyle
capitalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: capitalized
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of capitalise
trust territory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trust territories
Senses: glosses: a territory placed under the administration of a state by the United Nations
Related terms: trusteeship
mandate
abolitionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æb.əˈlɪʃ.əˌnɛɹ.i/
Forms: form: more abolitionary
form: most abolitionary
Etymology: From abolition + -ary.
Senses: glosses: Relating to or favoring abolition.
xanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xanthins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of xanthine.
chiseler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chiselers
form: chiseller
Etymology: From chisel + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who uses a chisel for carving.
examples: text: [Of course $20,000 is too much.] Only a cheap chiseler would ask that much.
ref: 1941, Groucho Marx, The Big Store (movie)
glosses: A cheat; a swindler; a con artist.
examples: text: --Reuben and the son were piking it down the quay next the river on their way to the Isle of Man boat and the young chiseller suddenly got loose and over the wall with him into the Liffey.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 6]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
qualifier: 20th-century inner-city Dublin slang
glosses: A child.
Synonyms: sense: informal: con artist
word: sharper
word: spiv
chiseller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chisellers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chiseler.
xeroderma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xerodermas
form: xerodermata
Etymology: From xero- + -derma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any of various skin diseases characterised by dry, hard, scaly skin, especially ichthyosis.
Synonyms: xerodermia
Derived terms: xeroderma pigmentosum
xerodermatic
xerodermatous
xanthine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzanθiːn/
ipa: /ˈzanθaɪn/
ipa: /ˈzænθin/
homophone: xanthein
homophone: xanthene
Forms: form: xanthines
form: xanthin
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, from French xanthine, reflecting New Latin combining forms: xanth- + -ine; ultimately from Ancient Greek ξανθός (xanthós, “yellow”), because xanthine is yellowish-white.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of alkaloids that include caffeine, theophylline, and theobromine as well as the parent compound, a precursor of uric acid found in many organs of the body.
wikipedia: classical compound
international scientific vocabulary
Derived terms: hypoxanthine
methylxanthine
nonxanthine
xanthine oxidase
zooxanthine
put to sleep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts to sleep
form: putting to sleep
form: put to sleep
form: put to sleep
Senses: examples: text: When even the silence and seclusion of this retreat failed to bring slumber, he sometimes called in a professional mesmerizer to put him into a hypnotic sleep, from which Sawyer knew how to arouse him at a fixed time. This habit, as well as the existence of the underground chamber, were secrets known only to Sawyer and the hypnotist who rendered his services. On the night of May 30, 1887, West sent for the latter, and was put to sleep as usual.
ref: 1897, Edward Bellamy, Equality (Bellamy), Preface:
glosses: To cause (someone) to sleep.
examples: 1916, Stratemeyer Syndicate, Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on Grandpa's Farm, Chapter XXV: Grandpa's Horses,
Grandpa Brown rode off with Mr. and Mrs. Kendall; and Bunny and Sue were given a good dinner and put to sleep that afternoon, for they were tired, sleepy and hungry.
synonyms: put down
glosses: To help (someone) to bed; put to bed.
examples: text: Our jealousy is only put to sleep by the unlimited confidence we all repose in the person to whom we all look as our president.
ref: 1787, Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Edward Carrington:
text: This is in accord with facts, for I can by cold put to sleep special parts of the nervous mass without putting other parts to sleep.
ref: 1872 August, Benjamin Ward Richardson, “The Physiology of Sleep”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 1:
text: 1935, Edgar Allison Peers (translator), John of the Cross, Ascent of Mount Carmel, Book 1, Chapter I,
For there is no going forth from the pains and afflictions of the secret places of the desires until these be mortified and put to sleep.
glosses: To render dormant.
examples: text: In one instance where a large number of dogs were put to sleep in the lethal chamber, one was found in deepest sleep, but still breathing, side by side and partly covered by another that was not only dead but cold and rigid.
ref: 1885 August, Benjamin Ward Richardson, “Measures of Vital Tenacity”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 27:
text: If he were a horse, not a chancellor, Scholz would be humanely put to sleep.
ref: 2024 May 4, Simon Tisdall, “Giorgia Meloni and Ursula von der Leyen, the double act that is steering the EU ever rightwards”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
synonyms: put down
glosses: To kill an animal painlessly, often with an injection; to euthanize.
glosses: To give a general anesthetic prior to surgery.
Related terms: put to bed
put to bed with a shovel
abominator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɑm.əˌneɪ.tɚ/
ipa: /əˈbɑm.ɪˌneɪ.tɚ/
Forms: form: abominators
Etymology: From abominate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who abominates.
slugger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslʌɡɚ/
rhymes: -ʌɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sluggers
Etymology: From slug + -er.
Senses: topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A boxer who tends to deliver hard punches.
examples: text: That will bring up the slugger, Jones.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A batter who has a high percentage of extra base hits.
Derived terms: circuit slugger
fructuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fructuous
form: most fructuous
Etymology: From Latin fructuōsus.
Senses: examples: text: 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
... and there is a fulle fair vale and a fructuouse, and there is a fair cytee and a gode, that men clepen Neople.
text: As fruits of hotter countries, transearthed in colder climates, have vigour enough in themselves to be fructuous according to their nature: but, that they are hindered by the chilling nips of the air, and the soil, wherein they are planted.
ref: 1904, Owen Felltham, William Henry Oliphant Smeaton, Resolves:
glosses: fruitful
Derived terms: fructuously
fructuousness
infructuous
unfructuous
Skillings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An English surname that originated in Norfolk, of unknown derivation.
sweating bullets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sweat bullets
road apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: road apples
Etymology: Probably with reference to the supposed similarity to rotten apples.
Senses: examples: text: Samples 7–12 contained coarsely chewed plant material; several closely resembled the "road apples" of horse and burro.
ref: 1964, P. S. Martin, F. W. Sharrock, “Pollen Analysis of Prehistoric Human Feces: A New Approach to Ethnobotany”, in American Antiquity, volume 30, number 2, page 171:
synonyms: street apple
glosses: Horse manure, especially when deposited on a road.
gimlety
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gimlety
form: most gimlety
Etymology: From gimlet + -y.
Senses: examples: 1915, John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps
His jaw had shut like a rat-trap, and there was the fire of battle in his gimlety eyes.
glosses: gimlet-eyed, piercing, sharp-sighted
sternutation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sternutations
Etymology: Latin sternutatio.
Senses: examples: text: 'Was that an echo?' said the Baronet, astonished at the sternutation which resounded from above; 'or' - drawing close to the adept, 'can it be the spirit you talked of, ridiculing our attempt upon his hidden treasures?'
ref: 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Oxford University Press, published 2002, page 210:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A sneeze; sneezing, especially as a symptom.
Synonyms: word: sneeze
topics: medicine
sciences
word: ptarmus
Derived terms: sternutate
sternutational
gimlet-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gimlet-eyed
form: most gimlet-eyed
Senses: glosses: Having a squint.
glosses: Having eyes which are in constant motion; shifty-eyed.
examples: 1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley
'D—n her gooseberry wig,' said the corporal, when she was out of hearing, 'that gimlet-eyed jade—mother adjutant, as we call her—is a greater plague to the regiment than provost-marshal, ...
glosses: Having piercing eyes, sharp-sighted.
glosses: Having keen vision.
Synonyms: sense: having a squint
word: squint-eyed
gimlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪm.lət/
rhymes: -ɪmlət
Forms: form: gimlets
Etymology: From Middle English gimlet etc., from Old French guinbelet, guimbelet, guibelet, probably a diminutive of the Anglo-Norman wimble, a variation of guimble (“drill”), from the Middle Low German wiemel; continued in New French as gibelet.
Cocktail either named after the tool, in reference to its penetrating effects, or British Navy surgeon Thomas Gimlette (1857–1943).
Senses: examples: text: The box was close on every side, with a little door for me to go in and out, and a few gimlet holes to let in air.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag):
text: I would find by the edge of that water / The collar-bone of a hare / Worn thin by the lapping of water, / And pierce it through with a gimlet and stare [...]
ref: 1917 November, W[illiam] B[utler] Yeats, “The Collar-bone of a Hare”, in The Wild Swans at Coole, Other Verses and a Play in Verse, Churchtown, Dundrum [Dublin]: The Cuala Press, →OCLC, page 3:
coordinate_terms: auger
awl
drill
glosses: A small screw-tipped tool for boring holes.
examples: text: We sat in a corner of the bar at Victor's and drank gimlets. “They don't know how to make them here,” he said. “What they call a gimlet is just some lime or lemon juice and gin with a dash of sugar and bitters. A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's Lime Juice and nothing else. It beats martinis hollow.”
ref: 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, published 2002, page 19:
text: Yeah, a piece of advice — once you’re back in circulation, don’t keep topping off a lady’s vodka gimlet when she’s not looking.
ref: 2001, General Hospital (TV soap opera, August 28)
text: By seven, dinner was under way, and a bottle of vodka gimlets and one of martinis were in the freezer, chilling.
ref: 2012, Stuart Woods, Unnatural Acts: A Stone Barrington Novel, Penguin, →ISBN, page 98:
coordinate_terms: martini
glosses: A cocktail, usually made with gin and lime juice.
Derived terms: gimlet-eyed
gimlety
gimlet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪm.lət/
rhymes: -ɪmlət
Forms: form: gimlets
form: gimleting
form: gimletting
form: gimleted
form: gimleted
form: gimletted
form: gimletted
Etymology: From Middle English gimlet etc., from Old French guinbelet, guimbelet, guibelet, probably a diminutive of the Anglo-Norman wimble, a variation of guimble (“drill”), from the Middle Low German wiemel; continued in New French as gibelet.
Cocktail either named after the tool, in reference to its penetrating effects, or British Navy surgeon Thomas Gimlette (1857–1943).
Senses: examples: text: Then there was an awful silence. The lady gimleted us again one by one with her blue eyes.
ref: 1904, Edith Nesbit, The New Treasure Seekers, Chapter 2:
glosses: To pierce or bore holes (as if using a gimlet).
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To turn round (an anchor) as if turning a gimlet.
-blast
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βλαστός (blastós, “germ, sprout”).
Senses: glosses: an immature cell or tissue
Derived terms: -blastic
Herculean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɜːɹˈkjuːliən/
ipa: /ˌhɜːɹkjəˈliːən/
rhymes: -uːliən
Forms: form: more Herculean
form: most Herculean
form: Herculæan
form: Herculian
form: herculean
form: herculian
Etymology: From Hercules + -an.
Senses: examples: text: But this is not the best:—look, pr'ythee, Charmian, / How this Herculean Roman does become / The carriage of his chafe.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 343, column 1:
glosses: Of extraordinary might, power, size, etc.; suggesting Hercules in size or strength.
examples: text: a Herculean labour
text: He replied in a dry manner, that I would find it a Herculean task to chastise everybody who should laugh at my expense;
ref: 1748, Tobias George Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random:
text: 2006, Jeremy Clarkson, Top Gear (TV show), commenting on the Bugatti Veyron automobile
The guys at Volkswagen have a Herculean task.
text: There are thousands of known isotopes, and to have a functional and easily maintainable exhibit for all of these would require a Herculean effort.
ref: 2012, John Nonte, Supercollider 4:
glosses: Requiring a huge amount of work; of extraordinary difficulty.
Related terms: Augean
herculean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more herculean
form: most herculean
Senses: examples: text: Still there are some loop-holes out of which a man may creep, and dare to think and act for himself; but for a woman it is an herculean task, because she has difficulties peculiar to her sex to overcome, which require almost super-human powers.
ref: 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:
text: In October 1998, heavy rains brought on by two consecutive typhoons caused serious flooding in northern Taiwan. Fortunately, the floods receded in a short time and many people went to the disaster areas to help the victims. For example, over one thousand Tzu Chi volunteers helped city workers and military forces clean up debris in Hsichih. They finished the herculean job in just one day.
ref: 2005, Cheng Yen, “Humanitarian Care Transcends All Borders”, in Foreign Language Publications Department, transl., edited by Douglas Shaw, The Cycle of Beauty, Taipei: Jing Si Publications Co., Ltd., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 78:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Herculean.
parenchyma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈɹɛŋ.kɪm.ə/
Forms: form: parenchymas
form: parenchymata
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παρέγχῠμα (parénkhŭma, “anything poured in beside”), from πᾰρᾰ- (pără-, “beside”) + ἔγχῠμα (énkhŭma, “instillation, content of a vessel”), given by the Greek anatomist Erasistratus to the peculiar substance of the lungs, liver, kidneys, and spleen, as if formed separately by the veins that run into them.
Senses: examples: text: Previously blood and air had been thought to mingle freely in the fleshy parenchyma of the lungs, but the microscope now revealed the membranous alveoli at the ends of the tracheo-bronchial ramifications.
ref: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 217:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The functional tissue of an organ as distinguished from the connective and supporting tissue.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The cellular tissue, typically soft and succulent, found chiefly in the softer parts of leaves, pulp of fruits, bark and pith of stems, etc.
examples: text: [I]n a Sponge, the Parenchyma, it seems, is but a kind of mucous gelly, which is very easily and cleerly wash'd away.
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXII:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Cellular tissue lying between the body wall and the organs of invertebrate animals lacking a coelom, such as flatworms.
Coordinate terms: idioblast
Derived terms: -enchyma
interparenchymatous
neuroparenchyma
palisade parenchyma
parenchymal
parenchymatitis
parenchymatous
parenchymous
pseudoparenchyma
wood parenchyma
Related terms: enchyma
chyme
alchemy
second to none
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Second Merchant: How is the man esteemed here in the city?
Angelo: Of very reverend reputation, sir,
Of credit infinite, highly beloved,
Second to none that lives here in the city.
ref: c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 96, column 2:
text: “[I]f I, in the performance of my work, have been second to none, do you see that you in yours may be equally efficient?”
ref: 1877, Anthony Trollope, chapter 11, in The Life of Cicero:
text: The NanShan, he affirmed, was second to none as a sea-boat.
ref: 1902 January–March, Joseph Conrad, “Typhoon”, in George R. Halkett, editor, The Pall Mall Magazine, volume XXVI, London: Printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney, →OCLC, chapter 1:
text: Such equipment demands first-class design and manufacturing skills, a good deal of experience and quality of materials second to none, and cannot be inexpensive.
ref: 1962 July, “B.R. signalling—Means to simplification and improvement”, in Modern Railways, page 50:
text: The righteous way to go / Little one would know / Or believe if I told them so / You're second to none
ref: 1970, “The Makings of You”, in Curtis, performed by Curtis Mayfield:
text: The Afghans have been second to none at small-war tactics ever since they fought the British in the 19th century.
ref: 2001 October 1, Yuri Zarakhovich, Alexander Lyakhovski, “A Tough Fight”, in Time:
text: Emerging new research has revealed that rail is a second-to-none focus for Government investment.
ref: 2020 December 2, Nigel Harris, “Comment: The UK's worst crisis since 1709”, in Rail, page 3:
glosses: As good as the best, as in quality or reputation; inferior to no one else or to nothing else of the same kind.
second to none
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The heroin, which police officials said had been measured at purity levels as high as 80 percent, is being sold under brand names like Unforgettable, Second to None, Black Beauty and Al Capone.
ref: 1992 July 30, “Powerful Heroin Kills 20”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 Jun 2011:
glosses: Heroin.