cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
-pred-
Language: English
Part of speech: interfix
Pronunciation: /pɹɛd/
Forms: form: pred-
Etymology: From prednisone, prednisolone.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of prednisone and prednisolone derivatives.
wung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wŭng
ipa: /wʌŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
Etymology: Formed by analogy with the past forms of class 3 strong verbs, such as swung and stung; compare hung.
Senses: examples: text: My spirit will have wung its way to the realm of eternal day.
ref: 1881, Bill Nye, chapter III, in Bill Nye and Boomerang, page 108:
text: The order was officially placed with Kevin, and a check has wung its way to him.
ref: 2000 August 25, Faith Moser, “Clanchief pin update”, in alt.fairs.renaissance:
text: email has wung it's^([sic]) way to you ;0)
ref: 2004 October 10, G@zz@, “FTAO Sumisdad”, in alt.sports.soccer.manchester.united:
glosses: past participle of wing
Derived terms: wung-out
Curupuri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: "No Indian here. Too much afraid. Curupuri," said Gomez. "Curupuri is the spirit of the woods," Lord John explained. "It's a name for any kind of devil. The poor beggars think that there is something fearsome in this direction, and therefore they avoid it."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of Curupira.
phoenix palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phoenix palms
form: phœnix palm
Senses: examples: text: The huge trees of the alluvial Amazonian plain gave place to the Phœnix and coco palms, growing in scattered clumps, with thick brushwood between.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: Any of various palms of the genus Phoenix, including the date palm.
Derived terms: Texas phoenix palm decline
phoenix palms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phoenix palm
phœnix palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phœnix palms
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of phoenix palm.
phœnix palms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phœnix palm
vegetable ivory tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vegetable ivory trees
Senses: examples: text: The vegetation had again changed, and only the vegetable ivory tree remained, with a great profusion of wonderful orchids, among which I learned to recognize the rare Nuttonia Vexillaria and the glorious pink and scarlet blossoms of Cattleya and odontoglossum.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: A tropical South American palm, Phytelephas macrocarpa, whose seed is used as a substitute for ivory; the tagua palm.
vegetable ivory trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vegetable ivory tree
whale-backed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more whale-backed
form: most whale-backed
Senses: examples: text: In front was an open plain, sloping slightly upwards and dotted with clumps of tree-ferns, the whole curving before us until it ended in a long, whale-backed ridge.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: Of a landform, having a gentle curve resembling the back of a whale.
techno-orientalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From techno- + orientalism.
Senses: examples: text: The origins of the cyberpunk genre involve Western anxieties about the East. Techno-orientalism is the use of Asian aesthetics in cyberpunk, futuristic, and dystopian settings.
ref: 2020 December 8, George Yang, “Orientalism, ‘Cyberpunk 2077,’ and Yellow Peril in Science Fiction”, in Wired, →ISSN:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
hypernyms: orientalism
glosses: Use of Asian aesthetics and cultural elements in Western works of science fiction.
Related terms: techno-oriental
Afrofuturism
jaracaca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jaracacas
Senses: examples: text: It seems to have been a special nest of these vermins, and the slopes were alive with them, all writhing in our direction, for it is a peculiarity of the Jaracaca that he will always attack man at first sight.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of jararaca (venomous snake of South America).
jaracacas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jaracaca
Moad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Moads
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Niblack
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Niblacks
Etymology: Variant of Niblock.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Niblacks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Niblack
Moads
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Moad
Switala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Switalas
form: Switalla
form: Schwitalla
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Świtała.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Kubitz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kubitzes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kubitz, ultimately from Czech, Polish, or other Slavic language.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Kloth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kloths
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kloth.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Kloths
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kloth
Kubitzes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kubitz
yellow perilist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Yellow Perilist
Etymology: From yellow peril + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Promoting the idea of yellow peril.
Yellow Perilist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Yellow Peril + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of yellow perilist.
Klippel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Klippels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Klippel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Klippel-Trénaunay syndrome
Keisling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Keislings
Etymology: Variant of Kiesling.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
deterrency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deter + -ency.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of deterrence.
synonyms: word: deterrence
Klippels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Klippel
Keislings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Keisling
Sliwka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sliwkas
Etymology: From Polish Śliwka, from śliwka (“plum”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Yellow Peril
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yellow Perils
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of yellow peril.
Derived terms: Yellow Perilist
nonlagged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + lagged.
Senses: glosses: Not lagged
phenomenologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phenomenological.
polytract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polytracts
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A nucleotide repeat
polytracts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polytract
pseudodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + dynamics.
Senses: glosses: dynamics that are inferred from secondary evidence
Switaj
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Switajs
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Świtaj.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Lograsso
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lograssos
form: LoGrasso
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Lograsso.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Lograssos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lograsso
scagnostic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scagnostics
Etymology: Coined by John W. Tukey as a blend of scatterplot + cognostic (another Tukey coinage).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A heuristic used to automatically analyse variables in a large dataset in order to determine which scatterplots are to be visualised in a scatterplot matrix.
wikipedia: John W. Tukey
slipknotting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The formation of slip knots in a protein
Haymaker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Haymakers
Etymology: An occupational surname, from haymaker.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Haverland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Haverlands
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Haverland, from haver (“oats”) + land (“country, field”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Haverlands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Haverland
Haymakers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Haymaker
Helmbrecht
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Helmbrechts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Helmbrecht.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Gudgel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gudgels
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Gudgels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gudgel
Helmbrechts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Helmbrecht
cart road
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cart roads
Senses: examples: text: The banks of the old railway are now so thickly overgrown with trees as to be almost indistinguishable from the surrounding countryside, and the most obvious landmarks are the walls of a bridge over a lane, and stone bridge, still intact, where a cart road crosses the cutting, close to the site of the former Clifton South Junction.
ref: 1950 May, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “A Forgotten Junction in Westmorland”, in Railway Magazine, page 330:
text: The project, known as the Bulkrane scheme, needs no station facilities other than a cart road giving access to road vehicles.
ref: 1961 November, “Talking of Trains: The "Bulkrane" project of British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 656:
glosses: Alternative form of cartroad.
Cheatum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cheatums
Etymology: Variant of Cheatham.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
cart roads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cart road
Cascone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cascones
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Cascone.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Cascones
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cascone
Cheatums
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cheatum
-idene
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /ɪ.diːn/
Etymology: From -ide + -ene.
Senses: examples: text: ethylidene, ethidene
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Radical having two valence bonds at the point of attachment.
Derived terms: -ylidene
rail wagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rail wagons
Senses: examples: text: For general liquids other than those pre-heated or highly inflammable, these 1,030gal containers may be filled either on rail wagons or on the Bulkrane.
ref: 1961 November, “Talking of Trains: The "Bulkrane" project of British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 656:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Any railway goods wagon.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A flat wagon used for carrying railway rails.
rail wagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rail wagon
track panel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: track panels
Senses: examples: text: NR staff used 50 engineering trains to replace over 5km (3.1 miles) of track, install more than 300 track panels, and lay down around 26,000 tonnes of ballast stones to support the track.
ref: 2021 September 22, “Network News: Track relaying removes Temple Meads bottleneck”, in RAIL, number 940, page 20:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: An assembled section of railway track.
wikipedia: Zillertalbahn
track panels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of track panel
Sarraute
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Sarraute.
Senses: examples: Claude Sarraute, b. 1927
glosses: A surname from French.
Derived terms: Sarrautean
Sarrautian
ventrums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ventrum
-betasol
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiː.tə.sɒl/
ipa: /ˈbeɪ.təˌsɔl/
Etymology: Probably from beta(metha)s(one) + -ol.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of prednisone and prednisolone derivatives.
Related terms: pred-
-pred-
-methasone
-metasone
Chernyak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Černiak
form: Cherniack
form: Cherniak
Etymology: From Ukrainian Черня́к (Černják) or Russian Черня́к (Černják).
Senses: examples: Yan Chernyak, b. 1909
glosses: A surname from Ukrainian.
Swieca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Swiecas
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Świeca, from świeca (“candle”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Cherniak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Černiak
form: Cherniack
form: Chernyak
Etymology: From Ukrainian Черняк (Černjak) or Russian Черняк (Černjak).
Senses: examples: Boris Cherniak, b. 1964
glosses: A surname from Ukrainian.
-methasone
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛθ.ə.səʊn/
ipa: /ˈmɛθ.ə.zəʊn/
ipa: /ˈmɛθ.əˌsoʊn/
ipa: /ˈmɛθ.əˌzoʊn/
Forms: form: -metasone
Etymology: From meth- + -a- + (predni)s(ol)one.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of prednisone and prednisolone derivatives.
Related terms: pred-
-pred-
-betasol
-metasone
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛt.ə.səʊn/
ipa: /ˈmɛt.ə.zəʊn/
ipa: /ˈmɛt.əˌsoʊn/
ipa: /ˈmɛt.əˌzoʊn/
Forms: form: -methasone
Etymology: From meth- + -a- + (predni)s(ol)one.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of prednisone and prednisolone derivatives.
Related terms: pred-
-pred-
-betasol
-prim
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /pɹɪm/
Etymology: From trimethoprim.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of trimethoprim derivatives acting as dihydrofolate reductase inhibitors and used as antibacterials.
crochet hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crochet hooks
Senses: glosses: A needle with a small hook at one end, used to make crochetwork (a type of hand-knitted textile).
cross-index
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cross-indexes
form: cross-indexing
form: cross-indexed
form: cross-indexed
Senses: examples: text: My record collection is sorted alphabetically by song title, but I've also cross-indexed it by artist.
glosses: To index under a secondary heading or keyword, so that an item may be looked up or located in an alternative way.
ursophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ursophiles
Etymology: From Latin ursus + -o- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: When a rogue grizzly must be exterminated by government officials, the laments of these new ursophiles continue for months, and letters to the editor run four or five to one in condemnation of the exterminators.
ref: 1969, Jack Olsen, “Prologue”, in Night of the Grizzlies, Signet, published 1971, page 23:
text: The anthology, suitable for the junior school library, Michael Bond’s Book of Bears, could well have been a feast for ursophiles but turns out to be only a good dinner.
ref: 1975, Education for Development Quarterly, page 52:
text: The Burton Collection of the Detroit Public Library, which has so many varieties, owns a copy, printed as part of a little seven-page pamphlet, Sir Bruin, issued in 1866, and ursophiles may read it there.
ref: 1977, Michigan in Books, page 15:
text: Bialosky is on the cover—to extend comfort and congratulations to ursophiles everywhere.
ref: 1984, Publishers Weekly, volume 225, page 51, column 1:
text: One reason: a contest that allows ursophiles to submit pictures of their own Teddies, which may be selected for inclusion in the ’86 edition.
ref: 1984, Time, volume 124, page 9:
text: Which much loved and sadly missed English writer, actor and ursophile wrote a lovely book all about living in a small house on the same island?
ref: 1986, Punch, volume 291, page 31, column 3:
text: About six months later, Chuck Gibbs, another avid amateur photographer and ursophile, approached too close to a sow grizzly and her three cubs in Glacier National Park and was killed.
ref: 1993, Martha Hill, The Art of Photographing Nature, Three Rivers Press, →ISBN:
text: These two new books are designed to stoke the insatiable appetite of ursophiles.
ref: 1993, Canadian Geographic, page 6, column 1:
text: Bears are among the most popular animals, and this book of photos and essays will satisfy the most particular ursophiles.
ref: 1997, Book Review Digest, volume 93, page 1357:
text: Dedicated ursophile and BBC Wildlife staff writer James Fair believes brown bears would thrive in the valleys and beech woods of the western Cotswolds.
ref: 2006 April, BBC Wildlife, volume 24, page 36, column 3:
text: To Diann, my alpha partner, ursophile, and tracking friend, for all her loving support and help.
ref: 2008, James C. Halfpenny, Scats and Tracks of North America: A Field Guide to the Signs of Nearly 150 Wildlife Species, Falcon Guides, →ISBN:
text: This is a beary special quiz for ursophiles—all the answers contain the letters b-e-a-r.
ref: 2009, Sylvia Dolson, “Test Your Voca-bear-lary!”, in Bear-ology: Fascinating Bear Facts, Tales & Trivia, PixyJack Press, →ISBN, page 172:
glosses: One who loves bears.
Related terms: arctophile
ursophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ursophile
cross-ply
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: bias-ply
glosses: Having a carcass constructed from layers of cords placed diagonally across one other; contrasted with radial construction.
raw_tags: of vehicle tyres
cross-ply
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-plies
Senses: synonyms: bias-ply
glosses: A tyre having a cross-ply construction.
necropolitan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more necropolitan
form: most necropolitan
Etymology: From necropolis + -itan.
Senses: examples: text: Humboldt had been buried not in potter's Ffield but far out in Deathsille, New Jersey, one of those vast, necropolitan developments …
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 467:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a large cemetery or necropolis.
silicon curtain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)tən
Etymology: From silicon (“computing”) and Iron Curtain.
Senses: examples: text: What this would mean in reality is a world of two internets - or what analysts are calling a "digital iron curtain" - dividing the world into parts that do business with Chinese companies like Huawei, and those that don't.
ref: [2019 March 6, Karishma Vaswani, “Huawei: The story of a controversial company”, in BBC News:
text: We hear also from Huawei’s founder and CEO, Ren Zhengfei, who explains that while the company doesn’t want to exist behind a “silicon curtain,” cut off from global suppliers, it is readying its own operating system to replace the one it used to buy from Google.
ref: 2019 November 11, Carolynn Look, Jeff Black, “Peering Through the Silicon Curtain Between the U.S. and China”, in Bloomberg News:
text: Pence went on to say that America did not seek a technological decoupling from China. But other parts of that speech—and some of the actions taken by the Trump administration in the months since—conjure images of a silicon curtain descending across the world.
ref: 2021 February, Eric Boehm, “A Silicon Curtain Descends”, in Reason, published 2020:
glosses: A legal barrier to technology transfer and sale of advanced computer equipment between China and the West.
open one's mind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: opens one's mind
form: opening one's mind
form: opened one's mind
form: opened one's mind
Senses: glosses: To become receptive to new ideas and perspectives.
Related terms: open mind
open-minded
Macedonio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Macedonios
Etymology: Patronymic surname, borrowed from Spanish Macedonio and Italian Macedonio.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Cannavaro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cannavaros
form: Cannavaroes
form: Cannavò
Etymology: From Italian Cannavaro, a surname derived from Sicilian cannavaru (“one who handles cànnava”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Sicilian.
vaccine escape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaccine escapes
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Mutation of a pathogen to a point where it is no longer recognized and counteracted by existing vaccines.
Capano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Capanos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Capano.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
polloi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: From my vantage point in this teeming city it appears that Father—feeling, I suspect, that it was ordained—accepts Mr. Coolidge’s victory too complacently. His rural retreat is untouched by the temper of the polloi.
ref: 1966, George Backer, Appearance of a Man, Random House, page 93:
text: On the other side a number of thinkers have espoused the cause of the polloi. History is the vicissitudes of common folk, and nothing nobler can be contemplated than the numberless multitudes who shape the world’s destiny.
ref: 1974, New Blackfriars, page 62:
text: ‘[…]What is M. Fouquet? M. Fouquet,’ replied d’Artagnan to himself, ‘is a handsome man, very much beloved by the women; a generous man, very much beloved by the poets; a man of wit, much execrated by the polloi. Not being woman, nor polloi, I neither love nor hate Monsieur the Superintendent.[…]’
ref: 1995, A. Craig Bell, transl., Alexandre Dumas: Le Vicomte de Bragelonne (The Man in the Iron Mask): A Critical Study, Merlin Books, translation of Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard by Alexandre Dumas, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: Alternative form of hoi polloi.
polloi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Potloi.
allophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌæləˈfɪliə/
Forms: form: allophilias
Etymology: From allo- + -philia.
Senses: synonyms: word: xenomania
english: all three: narrower
translation: all three: narrower
word: xenophilia
word: xenophily
antonyms: word: prejudice
word: xenophobia
word: xenophoby
glosses: The quality of having positive intergroup attitudes, i.e., positive attitudes towards outgroup members, those with characteristics different from one's own, such as people of different races, religions, cultures, etc.
Related terms: allophile
-apalooza
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /ə.pə.lu.zə/
/ə.pə.lʊ.zə/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of -a-palooza (“forms the name of a promotional event such as a presentation”).
glosses: Alternative form of -a-palooza (“emphasizes or exaggerates the element of a situation”).
liquid paraffin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɪk.wɪd ˈpa.ɹəf.ɪn/
ipa: /ˌlɪk.wɪd ˈpɛɹ.əf.ɪn/
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A colorless, odorless oily liquid consisting of a mixture of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum, used chiefly in medicine for treating constipation and especially formerly as a demulcent and solvent for nose and throat medication.
CISA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
government
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: security
glosses: Acronym of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
supra-ethnic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + ethnic.
Senses: glosses: Transcending or not restricted by ethnicity or ethnic identity.
saique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saiques
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of caique (“type of boat”).
fomiroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fomiroids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A hexaprenyl ketone (lanosterone) present in Fomitopsis
lanosterone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lanosterones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The steroid ketone 17-(1,5-dimethylhex-4-enyl)-4,4,10,13,14-pentamethyl-1,2,5,6,7,11,12,15,16,17-decahydrocyclopenta[a]phenanthren-3-one
postrotatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + rotatory.
Senses: glosses: Following rotation
Derived terms: postrotatory nystagmus
spirocyclopropyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spiro- + cyclopropyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of spirocyclopropane.
synonyms: word: spirocyclopropane
cycl-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cyclo-.
leave at the door
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leaves at the door
form: leaving at the door
form: left at the door
form: left at the door
Senses: examples: text: Or, if you’re talking to someone who’s more buttoned up and direct – maybe a superior or an executive – go straight for the answer. Leave the humour at the door, if that’s what they do.
ref: 2020 December 21, Bryan Lufkin, “How 'linguistic mirroring' can make you more convincing”, in BBC:
synonyms: check at the door
glosses: To dispense with something for now; to forget about it situationally, or omit or discard it in a given place or instance.
quaake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quaakes
form: quaaking
form: quaaked
form: quaaked
Senses: examples: text: The duck drinks, plays in the water with her bill, picks her feathers, and quaakes like a living one.
ref: 1785, James Ridgway, A Dictionary of Literary Conversation:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of quack (“make a noise like a duck”).
quaake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quaakes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of quack (“noise made by a duck”).
Crown Court
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Senses: glosses: A senior court that sits regularly in various regional locations, normally with a judge and jury. It deals with indictable offences and either-way offences referred from magistrates' courts, as well as appeals against the decisions of magistrates' courts.
me too-ism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: me too-isms
Senses: examples: text: [Thomas E.] Dewey’s loss of the presidency in 1948 had seemed a loss for “me too-ism”; Republicans were feeling that [Harry S.] Truman had reaped all the political benefits from policies they had been crucial in shaping.
ref: 1992, Gregory F. Treverton, “Integrating Germany, Engaging America”, in America, Germany, and the Future of Europe, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 79:
text: Finally, [Kevin] Rudd neutralised other issues by furiously agreeing with the government. This led to charges of ‘me too-ism’, but it also left the government little with which to go after Rudd and kept the debate focused on the areas where Rudd wanted it.
ref: 2008, Peter van Onselen, Philip Senior, “Introduction”, in Howard’s End: The Unravelling of a Government, Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, Melbourne University Publishing, →ISBN, page x:
text: I conclude by suggesting that a growing sense of English disaffection in relation to West Lothian and the distribution of public expenditure across the UK should be understood as a sign that a deeply held sense of procedural fairness has been violated, rather than dismissed as a species of the ‘sour me too-ism’ which much commentary continues to identify as the core of English national consciousness.
ref: 2014, Michael Kenny, “Political Intimations of English Grievance: West Lothian and the Barnett Formula”, in The Politics of English Nationhood, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 205:
glosses: Alternative form of me-tooism.
magistrates' court
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magistrates' courts
Senses: glosses: In England and Wales, a lower court of law that deals with less serious offences, as well as initial hearings for serious offences prior to referring these to the Crown Court. Cases are heard by two or three magistrates, or sometimes a district judge, without a jury.
glosses: A similar court of law in various other countries and jurisdictions.
coefficient of restitution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coefficients of restitution
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Ratio of the final to the initial relative velocity between two objects after they collide
coefficients of restitution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coefficient of restitution
blood tick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood ticks
Senses: examples: text: "To a man of philosophic temperament like myself the blood-tick, with its lancet-like proboscis and its distending stomach, is as beautiful a work of Nature as the peacock or, for that matter, the aurora borealis."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: A tick of the family Ixodidae, especially one engorged with blood.
blood ticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blood tick
bullet-nose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bulletnose
Senses: examples: text: Externally the cars are a departure from the previous awkward bullet-nose design, simplifying the connecting of the cars with diaphragms.
ref: 1961 November, D. W. Beadle, “New long-distance electric units for the Italian State Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 670:
glosses: Having the design or style of the nose of a bullet.
Related terms: bullet train
-tant
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /tənt/
Etymology: Probably from t(achykinin) + ant(agonist).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of neurokinin (tachykinin) receptor antagonists.
-pitant
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /pɪt.ənt/
Etymology: From pi- (“letter P”) + -tant (“neurokinin receptor antagonist”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of neurokinin NK₁ (substance P) receptor antagonists.
Related terms: -dutant
-netant
coronasceptic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coronasceptics
Senses: examples: text: In Bucharest, a few hundred coronasceptics -- holding religious icons, the national flag and signs that read "I believe in GOD, not in COVID" -- frequently protest against what they call a "sanitary dictatorship".
ref: 2020 July 21, “Romanian doctors fight surge in virus cases and conspiracy theories”, in France 24:
text: Romania has also seen a few hundred so-called coronasceptics -- holding religious icons, the national flag and signs that read "I believe in GOD, not in COVID" -- frequently protest in Bucharest against what they call a "sanitary dictatorship".
ref: 2020 August 8, “Protests against coronavirus measures becoming global”, in Deccan Herald:
text: Trump’s administration is trying to fall back to its old coronasceptic playbook even as the illness ravages senators, White House staff, secret service, and anyone else unfortunate enough to have come close to the utterly reckless and feckless president.
ref: 2020 October 8, James Ball, “Donald Trump is cornered by coronavirus”, in The New European:
text: Later, those same coronasceptics performed a U-turn to criticise premier Daniel Andrews for not supervising hotel quarantine closely enough, allowing a new outbreak of the disease.
ref: 2020 October 30, Malcolm Knox, “Australia's right is united by 'up yours' contrarianism and Mark Latham is its bellwether”, in The Guardian:
text: This short article will appeal to everyone: supporters of the ruling camp, its opponents, and most importantly coronasceptics and anti-vaccines.
ref: 2020 December 18, “When I analyze excess mortality graphs … on coronavirus only for smart people”, in Tekdeeps:
text: From August to October 2020, several public gatherings were held in Polish cities, organised by so-called 'Coronasceptics'.
ref: 2021, Maciej Serowaniec, Zbigniew Witkowski, Anna Frydrych-Depka, Pandemic Poland: Impacts of Covid-19 on Polish Law, page 91:
text: High granulation of the coronasceptic movement indicates that there is no clear leadership and protesters form small communities weakly connected to each other (Figure 16.2).
ref: 2022, Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech, Bartłomiej Łódzki, The Covid-19 Pandemic as a Challenge for Media and Communication Studies, page 219:
glosses: A person who believes Covid-19 is not real or is not a serious problem.
-dutant
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdjuː.tənt/
ipa: /ˈdu.tənt/
Etymology: Probably from Latin duo (“two”) + -tant (“neurokinin receptor antagonist”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of neurokinin NK₂ receptor antagonists.
Related terms: -netant
-pitant
-netant
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /nət.ənt/
Etymology: From ne(uro)- + -tant (“neurokinin receptor antagonist”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of neurokinin NK₃ receptor antagonists.
Related terms: -dutant
-pitant
student council
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: student councils
Senses: examples: text: While in high school, she was elected as student council president.
glosses: In elementary and secondary schools, an elected student body which mediates between students and staff and also organizes schoolwide activities.
fos-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɒs/
ipa: /fəs/
ipa: /fɑs/
ipa: /fəs/
Forms: form: -fos-
form: -fos
Etymology: From phosphorus.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of phosphorous derivatives of various pharmacological categories.
-fos-
Language: English
Part of speech: interfix
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɒs/
ipa: /fəs/
ipa: /fɑs/
ipa: /fəs/
Forms: form: fos-
form: -fos
Etymology: From phosphorus.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of phosphorous derivatives of various pharmacological categories.
Derived terms: -fosfamide
-fosine
Cavaness
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cavanesses
Etymology: Americanized form of the French Huguenot name Cabaniss.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
-fos
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɒs/
ipa: /ˌfɑs/
Forms: form: fos-
form: -fos-
Etymology: From phosphorus.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of phosphorous derivatives used as insecticides, anthelminthics, pesticides, etc.
Creecy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Creecys
Etymology: Borrowed from French Creecy.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
-fosfamide
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɒs.fə.mʌɪd/
ipa: /ˈfɑs.fəˌmaɪd/
Etymology: From cyclophosphamide.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of alkylating agents of the cyclophosphamide group.
-fosine
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /fə.ziːn/
ipa: /fəˌsin/
Etymology: From -fos- (“phosphorous derivative”) + -ine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of phosphorous derivatives used as cytostatics.
Creecys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Creecy
Cavanesses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cavaness
Duggar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Duggars
Senses: glosses: A surname.
DiVirgilio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: DiVirgilios
form: Divirgilio
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Di Virgilio.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
DiVirgilios
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of DiVirgilio
Duggars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Duggar
Degan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Degans
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Clinkscale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Clinkscales
Etymology: Habitational surname of Scots origin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scots.
Clinkscales
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Clinkscale
Degans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Degan
iudex non calculat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin iūdex nōn calculat (literally “a judge does not calculate”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The principle that a judge should base their decision on the strength of the arguments rather than their quantity.
Coffel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Coffels
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Brennecke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brenneckes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Brennecke.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Brenneckes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Brennecke
Coffels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Coffel
Grudzinski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Grudzinskis
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Grudziński.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Hapner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hapners
Etymology: Variant of Hoeppner.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Hapners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hapner
Grudzinskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Grudzinski
Ikard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ikards
Etymology: Variant of Ikerd.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Goldade
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Goldades
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Goldades
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Goldade
Ikards
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ikard
Carrick-on-Suir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in south-east County Tipperary, Ireland.
SVR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian СВР (SVR), initialism of Служба Внешней Разведки (Služba Vnešnej Razvedki, “Foreign Intelligence Service”).
Senses: topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
qualifier: international relations
glosses: The civilian external intelligence directorate of Russia
Coordinate terms: GRU
FSB
KGB
NKVD
svr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: svrs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of server.
from your lips to God's ears
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: The expression originated in Yiddish (פֿון דײַן מויל אין גאָטס אויערן), spoken by Ashkenazi Jews in Europe. It was adopted into English due to the influence of Ashkenazim who immigrated to the United States.
Senses: examples: text: "Heaven help us," she said. "From your lips to God's ears," said Stan Pittman as he walked up to her desk.
ref: 1987, Nancy Pickard, No Body, page 55:
text: "From your lips to God's ears! May our enemies," I said, "have as much good health as I understand what is happening with you and what this game is about!"
ref: 2009, Sholem Aleichem, Tevye the Dairyman: And, Motl the Cantor's Son, page 64:
glosses: Used to express the speaker's wish that a preceding statement by another speaker were to come true.
Related terms: I wish
rootstalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rootstalks
Etymology: From root + stalk.
Senses: examples: text: All these species are climbing, briery plants, having long slender roots, which proceed in all directions from a common rootstalk or rhizome.
ref: 1868, George Bacon Wood, A Treatise on Therapeutics, and Pharmacology, Or Materia Medica, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Company, page 432:
text: For Theophrastus insists that the scion's relation to the rootstalk is not essentially different from that of any other plant's relation to the earth. The rootstalk simply provides nourishment, just as the earth does, while the formation and growth of the scion are both due to the power of the scion itself.
ref: 2016, James Wilberding, Forms, Souls, and Embryos, Routledge, →ISBN:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of rhizome.
synonyms: word: rhizome
rootstalks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rootstalk
crystal-gazer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crystal-gazers
form: crystal gazer
Senses: examples: text: It is a great pleasure to be with you today and to speak to you concerning the future of medicine. In so doing, I do not wish to pose as a soothsayer or crystal gazer.
ref: 1951 March, John W. Cline, “The Future of Medicine”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 3, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 165:
glosses: Someone who claims to be able to see the future by gazing into a crystal ball.
examples: text: According to the bank's crystal-gazers, interest rates are going to rise again soon.
glosses: Someone who makes predictions about the future, especially when these are seen as speculative.
Related terms: crystal-gazing
crystal gazer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crystal gazers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crystal-gazer.
Ashton Moss
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A largely open space near Ashton-under-Lyne, Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ9299).
crystal-gazing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crystal-gazings
Senses: glosses: The action or practice of gazing into a crystal ball in the hope or belief of seeing the future.
examples: text: The government's financial forecasts are just crystal-gazing.
glosses: The making of predictions about the future, especially when these are seen as very speculative.
Related terms: crystal-gazer
New Clee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TA2810).
Related terms: Cleethorpes
Old Clee
open one's mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aʊθ
Forms: form: opens one's mouth
form: opening one's mouth
form: opened one's mouth
form: opened one's mouth
Senses: examples: text: I advise you: don't open your mouth at the dinner.
antonyms: shut one's mouth
glosses: to speak
wind-driven
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The air is circulated—up from the floor and down again through the ice-bunkers, by revolving fans connected with wind-driven rotors on the roofs.
ref: 1961 November, Hamilton Ellis, “The Eastern Region helps the frozen foods boom”, in Trains Illustrated, page 683:
glosses: Occurring with the presence of a wind, although a rotary wind-driven ventilator on a vehicle can also be activated by movement of the vehicle.
raw_tags: of ventilation
cupidinously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a cupidinous manner; greedily, desirously.
cut-down
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Deverbal from cut down.
Senses: examples: text: This is a cut-down version of the software package; it doesn't include all the features.
glosses: Reduced in size or scope.
Related terms: cut down
cutdown
axle-driven
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The lighting equipment consists of [an] axle-driven shunt field dynamo with a regulator combining all the necessary switch gear as a unit, and a lead acid accumulator cell battery housed in two boxes on the underframe.
ref: 1951 May, “British Railways Standard Coaches”, in Railway Magazine, page 328:
text: Another type has electric air circulation, supplied by axle-driven generators.
ref: 1961 November, Hamilton Ellis, “The Eastern Region helps the frozen foods boom”, in Trains Illustrated, page 683:
glosses: Driven from a revolving axle, such as on a moving rail vehicle.
sampaloc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sampalocs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tamarind.
synonyms: word: tamarind
free-running
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: freer-running
form: freest-running
Senses: examples: text: As to any suggestion that Stroudley's engines were not free-running at high speed, this was of little moment with 60 m.p.h. laid down as the limit at that time.
ref: 1941 May, “Notes and News: William Stroudley”, in Railway Magazine, page 234:
text: It is the Bulleid Pacifics of the Southern Region, which all observers of locomotive performance know to be among the freest running engines in the country.
ref: 1961 November, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 684:
glosses: Moving freely and smoothly.
raw_tags: of a mechanism
freest running
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of free-running: most free-running
Buckhorn Weston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Buckhorn Weston and Kington Magna Parish Council) in northern Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST7524).
Princess of Wales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Princesses of Wales
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, two of the Princesses of Wales — Lady Anne Neville and Katharine of Aragon — became Queen through later marriages and were not consorts of Princes of Wales at the time of their coronations.
ref: 1983, Mary Beacock Fryer, Arthur Bousfield, Garry Toffoli, “Introduction”, in Lives of the Princesses of Wales, Toronto, Ont.: Dundurn Press, →ISBN, page 6, column 1:
glosses: A royal title given to the wife of the Prince of Wales.
wikipedia: Princess of Wales
Sutton Bingham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and reservoir of the same name in Closworth parish, Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST5411).
Closworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈklɒzwə(ɹ)θ/
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST5610).
add value machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: add value machines
Etymology: Calque of Cantonese 增值機 /增值机 (zang¹ zik⁶ gei¹).
Senses: glosses: A machine that adds money to (tops up) public transport cards.
Related terms: adding machine
add value machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of add value machine
Bengal quince
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bengal quinces
Senses: glosses: Indian bael (Aegle marmelos).
Synonyms: sense: Aegle marmelos
word: bael
sense: Aegle marmelos
word: golden apple
sense: Aegle marmelos
word: Japanese bitter orange
sense: Aegle marmelos
word: stone apple
sense: Aegle marmelos
word: wood apple
nipa palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nipa palms
Senses: glosses: nipa, mangrove palm (Nypa fruticans)
mock privet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mock privets
Senses: glosses: Phillyrea spp., native to the Mediterranean
Phillyrea latifolia (type species)
glosses: Phillyrea spp., native to the Mediterranean
Phillyrea angustifolia
edible amaranth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edible amaranths
Senses: glosses: Amaranthus tricolor, native to South America; widely cultivated.
Synonyms: sense: Amaranthus tricolor
word: Joseph's coat
-pride
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /pɹaɪd/
Etymology: Clipping of sulpiride.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of sulpiride derivatives.
semijocular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: “It was a semijocular reference to Star Wars—but only semijocular,” Lucchino explained later.
ref: 2004, Steve Kettmann, One Day at Fenway: A Day in the Life of Baseball in America, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 72:
glosses: Alternative form of semi-jocular.