cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
protomammal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protomammals
Etymology: From proto- + mammal.
Senses: glosses: Any evolutionary ancestor of the mammals.
protometabolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From proto- + metabolism.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A series of linked chemical reactions, in a prebiotic environment, that has characteristics of true metabolism.
protoporcelain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protoporcelains
Etymology: From proto- + porcelain.
Senses: glosses: An early Chinese glazed stoneware, from the Han dynasty, that had some of the characteristics of true porcelain without its translucency.
protostomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more protostomatous
form: most protostomatous
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a protostome
Synonyms: protostomous
protostomous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From protostome + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a protostome
Synonyms: protostomatous
protostome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protostomes
Etymology: From translingual Protostomia.
Senses: glosses: Any animal, of the taxon Protostomia, in which the mouth is derived from the embryonic blastopore
Related terms: protostomatous
protostomian
protostomic
protostomous
deuterostome
protostomian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From protostome + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the protostomes
protostomian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protostomians
Etymology: From protostome + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A protostome
prototypicality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From prototypical + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being prototypical
protozoological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more protozoological
form: most protozoological
Etymology: From proto- + zoological.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to protozoology
protozoologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From protozoological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Regarding protozoology or protozoans
protropin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pro- + tropin?
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A polypeptide growth hormone secreted by the pituitary gland; a synthetic version used medicinally
protruberance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protruberances
Etymology: Irregular alteration of protuberance, probably after protrude.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of protuberance.
protrusibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From protrusible + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being protrusible
protrusible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: popout; pop-up; extendible, extensible
text: The stylet, a protrusible spear-shaped feature of a nematode, allows it to attack and feed on plant roots.
glosses: Capable of being protruded; capable of being thrust outward.
Related terms: protruding
protrusive
telescoping
proturan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proturans
Etymology: From Protura + -an.
Senses: glosses: Any of many proto-insects, of the order Protura, that lack eyes and wings.
proturan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proturan
form: most proturan
Etymology: From Protura + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to these insects.
proviant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: provisions, especially for an army
Synonyms: provand
provant
lexigram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛk.sɪˌɡɹæm/
rhymes: -ɛksɪɡɹæm
Forms: form: lexigrams
Etymology: From lexi- + -gram.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: lexigraph (polysemic, sometimes synonymous), logogram, logograph
text: Instead of ASL, Savage-Rumbaugh used an extensive ‘lexigram’, a matrix of 256 geometrical shapes on a board. Instructors touch the symbols, which represent verbs and nouns, to create simple requests or commands.
ref: 2013, Richard Gross, Being Human: Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives, Routledge, →ISBN, page 165:
text: Each chimp next learned to press the lexigram corresponding to a food item that it had seen the teacher put in an opaque container.
ref: 2014, Joseph J. Pear, The Science of Learning, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 199:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
coordinate_terms: ideogram
ideograph
pictogram
semasiograph
glosses: A symbol that represents a word but is not necessarily indicative of the object referenced by the word, used in studies of communication
Related terms: Yerkish
penitant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more penitant
form: most penitant
Senses: examples: text: The churches were crowded with penitant sinners: the sons of riot and profligacy were overawed into sobriety and decorum.
ref: 1810, T. Smollett, The History of England: From the Revolution to the Death of George II, Inskeep and Bradford, page 99:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of penitent.
penitant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penitants
Senses: examples: text: It was preceded by a large crucifix borne by a penitant, escorted by two Acolytes, each one of whom carried a lantern fixed at the end of a long wand.
ref: 1835, Prosper Merimee, An Execution in Spain, volume IX, The New England Magazine, page 412:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of penitent.
provincehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From province + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The status of being a province.
proximation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proximations
Etymology: From approximation.
Senses: examples: text: Then, as Watt still waited for the figure to draw very near indeed, he realized that it was not necessary, not at all necessary, that the figure should draw very near indeed, but that a moderate proximation would be more than sufficient. For Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all with what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: proximity
glosses: approximation
snow storm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow storms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snowstorm.
prozine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prozines
Etymology: From pro + zine. See pro (“professional”). Coined by American chess player and SF fandom founder Russ Chauvenet.
Senses: glosses: A professional magazine; a journal
Synonyms: promag
Related terms: semiprozine
pruno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpruːnoʊ̯/
Etymology: From prune + -o. Originally (by 1940s) referring to fermented prune juice, later applied to any fermented fruit juice.
Senses: synonyms: jail juice
prison hooch
prison wine
swish
toilet wine
hypernyms: hooch
coordinate_terms: jungle juice
;
bathtub gin
glosses: An improvised alcoholic drink typically produced in correctional facilities.
like hell
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: You'd better run like hell!
text: He had an innate honesty and humility, a work ethic that elevated him above most others in England. He knew what he wanted and worked like hell to try to make it happen.
ref: 2018 May 4, Tom English, “Steven Gerrard: A 'seriously clever or recklessly stupid' Rangers appointment”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: In a manner that uses all of the strength, speed, or effort that a person can summon.
examples: text: Me do the washing up? Like hell I will!
glosses: Used ironically to express the opposite of one's intentions
examples: text: You look like hell!
text: It stank like hell down there!
glosses: Bad or badly.
Synonyms: sense: ironic negator
word: like fuck
word: my ass
word: my arse
word: my butt
word: my eye
word: my foot
word: my thigh
word: bullshit
Related terms: as hell
like a bat out of hell
like buggery
like heck
the hell
the hell you say
prutah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prutahs
form: prutot
form: prutoth
form: pruta
Etymology: From Hebrew פרוטה.
Senses: glosses: A bronze coin, equivalent to the Roman quadrans, used in ancient Palestine.
glosses: An aluminium coin, worth one thousandth of a pound, used in Israel until 1960.
pryan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prian
Etymology: From Cornish pri (“clay”), possibly + -an (adjective-forming suffix) with later nominalization. Not, however, derived from Cornish prien (“clay ground”), which is itself a borrowing of pryan from English.
Senses: glosses: A soft, white clay.
Derived terms: pryany
pryany
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pryany
form: most pryany
form: priany
Etymology: From pryan + -y.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or containing pryan.
psammology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From psammo- + -logy.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The branch of geology concerned with the study of sand.
psammoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psammomas
form: psammomata
Etymology: From psammo- + -oma.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A brain tumour containing concretions resembling grains of sand
pseudoautosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + autosomal.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Describing genes in the X- and Y- chromosomes that behave like autosomes during meiosis
pseudocoelomate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudocoelomate
form: most pseudocoelomate
Etymology: From pseudocoelom + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or possessing a pseudocoel (pseudocoelom).
pseudocoelomate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudocoelomates
Etymology: From a substantivation of the above adjective. Equivalent to pseudocoelom + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any invertebrate animal with a three-layered body and a pseudocoel (pseudocoelom).
lexigraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɛksɪˌɡɹæf/
Forms: form: lexigraphs
Etymology: From lexi- + -graph.
Senses: examples: text: "Be that as it may, it is certain that the lexigraph for hayashi is not a Japanese creation, but a nowadays-forgotten Chinese character..."
ref: 2006, Noël J. Nickson, Laurence E. R. Picken, Music from the Tang Court: Some Ancient Connections Explored, →ISBN, page 50:
text: "He does not want them to be read as we might read a lexigraph, a postmodern painting of words such as Joseph Kosuth's red..."
ref: 2006, James A.W. Heffernan, “Speaking for Pictures”, in Writing and Seeing: Essays on Word and Image, →ISBN, page 43:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A lexigram or ideograph, a graphical depiction of a single word.
Derived terms: lexigraphic
lexigraphical
lexigraphy
Related terms: semasiograph
logogram
pseudocoel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudocoels
Etymology: From pseudo- + -coel.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The body cavity of certain nematodes (primitive invertebrates), which is analogous to a coelom but lacking mesodermal cells, i.e. not lined with mesothelium.
Related terms: pseudocoelom
pseudocoloring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + coloring.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pseudocolouring.
pseudocolouring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudocoloring
Etymology: From pseudo- + colouring.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The assignment of arbitrary colours to the grey levels of a monochrome image; used especially in thermography
thermography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: thermographies
Etymology: From thermo- + -graphy.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of several techniques for the remote measurement of the temperature variations of a body, especially by creating images produced by infrared radiation.
examples: text: Thermography, which imitates engraving, costs far less because it employs no dies or plates.
ref: 1999, Paperie: The Art of Writing and Wrapping with Paper, page 73:
glosses: Any process of writing involving the use of heat.
Synonyms: thermal imaging
Derived terms: breast thermography
infrared thermography
Related terms: thermogram
thermograph
thermographic
thermographic camera
beaners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beaner
carpetmuncher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carpetmunchers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of carpet muncher.
carpetmunchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carpetmuncher
true leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: true leaves
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any leaves of a seed plant other than the cotyledons.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any leaf containing vascular tissue.
Related terms: enation
phyllidium
megaphyll
microphyll
joug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jougs
Etymology: Related to yoke; see jougs.
Senses: glosses: The crossbar joining the shafts of an ox-drawn cart.
examples: text: About 6 ft. from the ground is fastened "the joug," an iron collar in the wall, used to confine prisoners before it was thought worth while to build prisons or cages for them.
ref: 1873, John Murray (publishers.), Handbook for travellers in Scotland (page 261)
glosses: Synonym of jougs (“chained iron collar for sinners”).
synonyms: word: jougs
extra: chained iron collar for sinners
joug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jougs
Etymology: Compare jug.
Senses: examples: text: A gallon equaled three Scottish pints or jougs.
ref: 2022, Graham Simpson, From Croft to Craft, page 347:
glosses: Synonym of Scottish pint.
synonyms: word: Scottish pint
trifolium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trifoliums
form: trifolia
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: The larger species (Panax quinquefolium) is rather coarse and ordinary in its appearance; the flowers are very nearly like those of the trifolia, but grow in an irregular and elongated cluster.
ref: 1867, Wilson Flagg, “The Early Wild Flowers”, in The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries, page 155:
text: The majority of the trifoliums are native to Europe and Asia. Only comparatively few of the trifoliums native to the United States are of food production significance.
ref: 2012, Douglas M. Considine, Foods and Food Production Encyclopedia, page 441:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Trifolium of clovers and trefoils.
pseudocopulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudocopulations
Etymology: From pseudo- + copulation.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various processes, amongst diverse animals, in which male gametes are passed from one individual to another without sexual union.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The process by which an insect (such as a bee) attempts to mate with a flower (such as an orchid) that mimics a female insect, and in doing so pollinates the plant.
Related terms: Pouyannian mimicry
pseudodementia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudodementias
Etymology: From pseudo- + dementia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A mild form of dementia from which the patient (often an elderly woman) may recover.
pseudofossil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudofossils
Etymology: From pseudo- + fossil.
Senses: examples: text: F illustrates unicellular forms preserved in fine-grained carbonate; it is uncertain whether these are actual microfossils or pseudofossils formed during crystallisation of the carbonate.[…]L-N appear to be charcoal-like pseudofossils.
ref: 2004 March, Microbiology Australia, Volume 5, Number 1, Australian Society for Microbiology, page 38:
text: 2005, Sören Jensen, Mary L. Droser, James G. Gehling, Trace fossil preservation and the early evolution of animals, Loren E. Babcock, Interpretation of Biological and Environmental Changes across the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Boundary, Elsevier, page 26,
The distinction between a trace fossil and a pseudofossil is far from trivial (see discussion in Ekdale et al., 1984, pp. 29–36).
text: Although these criteria seem precise, establishing the biogenicity of ancient fossils has proven to be the most difficult task. This is largely due to the facts that pseudofossils can mimic convincingly the characteristics of microfossils, and that an Archean microfossil record to which objects can be compared is very rare (Schopf and Walter, 1983; Schopf, 204).
ref: 2006, Anna M. Carnerup et al., “The Record of Early Life: In Search of Biosignatures”, in Joseph Seckbach, editor, Life as We Know It, Springer, page 244:
glosses: Any object, marking or impression that resembles a fossil but whose origin is non-biological.
Related terms: dubiofossil
ichnofossil
pseudomonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudomonad + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or produced by a pseudomonad bacteria
pseudomonad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudomonads
Etymology: From pseudo- + monad; a trivialized form of the scientific name Pseudomonas.
Senses: glosses: Any of many bacteria of the family Pseudomonadaceae, some of which are pathogenic
Related terms: pseud
sorz
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: sorry
pseudomonas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudomonades
Senses: glosses: A pseudomonad.
pseudophotograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudophotographs
form: pseudo-photograph
Etymology: From pseudo- + photograph.
Senses: glosses: A photorealistic painting.
glosses: A photographic image that has been digitally manipulated or stored.
Related terms: pseudophotographic
photorealistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌfoʊ.toʊˌɹiː.əlˈɪs.tɪk/
Forms: form: more photorealistic
form: most photorealistic
Etymology: From photo- + realistic.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: Of or pertaining to photorealism.
Hypernyms: realistic
Derived terms: nonphotorealistic
pseudoprime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoprimes
Etymology: From pseudo- + prime.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An integer that possesses at least one characteristic of a prime number without actually being prime. The characteristic is typically chosen to make such "false primes" very rare.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A Fermat pseudoprime; a composite integer n satisfying bⁿ⁻¹≡1(mod n) for some integer b such that b > 1.
Derived terms: Fermat pseudoprime
pseudoprime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + prime.
Senses: glosses: Being such an integer.
spit-take
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spit-takes
Senses: examples: 2008, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content nr. 1231: Pssssh!
Wow Faye, I didn’t think people actually did spit-takes in real life.
glosses: Alternative spelling of spit take.
spit-take
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spit-takes
form: spit-taking
form: spit-taked
form: spit-took
form: spit-taked
form: spit-took
form: spit-taken
Senses: examples: text: Meanwihle[sic] at Winterfell, another overdone scheme designed mainly to surprise the audience. In the black of her chambers, Sansa brainstorms with Littlefinger what Arya could want. “After she murders you, what does she become?” he asks. To which Sansa does everything but gasp and spit-take, widening her eyes and saying like she’s just realizing it for the first time, “Lady of Winterfell.”
ref: 2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: To perform a spit take
fashion contest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fashion contests
Senses: examples: text: His dog won an award in the fashion contest at the annual dog-day festival.
glosses: A competition held to identify the most attractive or beautiful candidates.
Aino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ainu (ethnic group of Japan)
Aino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ainu (language)
Jarmo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A prehistoric archaeological site located in modern Iraq on the foothills of the Zagros Mountains.
comandancia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish comandancia, from comandante + -ancia.
Senses: glosses: A commandery.
literato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: literati
Etymology: From Italian literato. Doublet of literate and literatus.
Senses: glosses: singular of literati
Synonyms: literatus
Coordinate terms: literata
out of business
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The first thing to say is that the world and European champions, who have won 21 trophies since Abramovich’s takeover in 2003 – more than any other English club during the period – will surely not be put out of business, however hard the financial restrictions that have been brought against them appear.
ref: March 11 2022, David Hytner, “Chelsea are in crisis but there is no will to leave club on their knees”, in The Guardian:
glosses: No longer in business or service; defunct.
partialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: partialisms
Etymology: From partial + -ism.
Senses: topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The doctrine that the three persons of the Trinity are each three parts of God; in other words, each one thirds of God.
topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The doctrine that Christ's atonement was made for only a part of humanity.
glosses: Partiality; the quality of being partial.
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: The sexual attraction to specific parts of the body.
precedential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹɛsəˈdɛnʃəl/
rhymes: -ɛnʃəl
Etymology: From precedent + -ial.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Having the force of precedent.
Derived terms: precedential law
peat moss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peat mosses
Senses: glosses: sphagnum.
ousted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oust
Derived terms: unousted
ousts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oust
ousting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊstɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊstɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oust
ousting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊstɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊstɪŋ
Forms: form: oustings
Senses: glosses: The act by which somebody is ousted; an ouster.
vouched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aʊtʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vouch
swirled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)ld
Senses: glosses: Mixed in a circular pattern with both original components distinguishable.
swirled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)ld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of swirl
blockading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blockade
blockades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blockade
blockades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blockade
revelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of revel
drummed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹʌmd/
rhymes: -ʌmd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drum
unpick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪk
Forms: form: unpicks
form: unpicking
form: unpicked
form: unpicked
Etymology: From Middle English unpiken, equivalent to un- + pick.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
synonyms: unstitch
glosses: To undo sewing stitches.
topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: To undo knitting in order to reuse the wool.
glosses: To unravel or untangle the threads of a rope etc.
examples: text: Scientists are attempting to unpick the mystery of the “photic sneeze” – a bizarre reflex that causes people to sternutate, or sneeze, in response to bright light – and they need your help.
ref: 2020 October 11, Lisa Geddes, “Calling all sneezers: scientists try to unpick mystery of 'photosneezia'”, in The Guardian:
text: We're going to hazard a guess that 'apple cider vinegar benefits' has been something you've typed into Google a time or two, trying to unpick exactly why your best wellness mate has said you just have to try it.
ref: 2023 April 17, Rebecca Gillam, Kate Wills, “8 Apple cider vinegar benefits for weight loss, digestion & soothing hangover symptoms”, in Women's Health:
glosses: To unfold; to solve.
examples: text: The home team eventually started to unpick the Town defence and Fabregas forced a saved from visiting goalkeeper Marton Fulop after collecting a pass from Bendtner, who played on the right side of the front line.
ref: 2011 January 25, Paul Fletcher, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Ipswich (agg 3 - 1)”, in BBC:
text: Any plan to unpick the carefully constructed compromise to keep the Irish border free of checkpoints will enrage other European governments, especially Dublin’s.
ref: 2020 September 7, Martin Farrer, “Monday briefing: Johnson plans to unpick Brexit treaty”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To disassemble, to undo.
examples: text: These compulsive men – and a handful of equally obsessive ‘femcels’ – have been likened to terrorists, and their forum posts have been unpicked ad nauseam.
ref: 2020 February 19, Jake Hall, “Investigating the insidious rise of the gay incel”, in Dazed:
glosses: To take apart; criticize harshly.
glosses: To deselect.
Related terms: word: unpicker
word: unpack
Stakhonovite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Stakhonovites
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Stakhanovite.
pterosauri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pterosaurus
slashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslæʃɪŋ/
Etymology: From slash + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slash
slashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslæʃɪŋ/
Forms: form: slashings
Etymology: From slash + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The criminal gang carried out razor slashings on their enemies.
glosses: The action of something that slashes.
topics: business
forestry
glosses: slash (woody debris)
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
ice-hockey
lacrosse
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: The penalty called for using the stick to slash an opposing player.
slashing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslæʃɪŋ/
Forms: form: more slashing
form: most slashing
Etymology: From slash + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Lindsay might be seedy […] or I might by some unlooked-for providence suddenly develop a slashing game.
ref: 1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major:
text: ‘...Got it this time, Edmund; a slashing bit of work.’
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 56:
synonyms: sizzling
glosses: Powerfully excellent.
unfrequented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfrequented
form: most unfrequented
Etymology: From un- + frequented.
Senses: examples: text: This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook than flourishing peopled towns:
ref: c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:
text: As my Walks are all by Night, I am pretty secure in this wild, and unfrequented Place from meeting any Company.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 15, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VIII, page 182:
text: Making so long a passage through such unfrequented waters, descrying no ships, and ere long, sideways impelled by unvarying trade winds, over waves monotonously mild; all these seemed the strange calm things preluding some riotous and desperate scene.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 126, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 577:
text: Leaving Washington at 7 a.m., it reached Portland [Maine] at 6.10 p.m., the 570 miles thus taking 11 hr. 10 min., and requiring an overall average of 51.0 m.p.h. including stops and the use of both congested main lines and an unfrequented cross-country line from Worcester onwards.
ref: 1940 October, Mercury, “American Travel in 1940”, in Railway Magazine, page 536:
text: The stone circle is small and hard to find and the search is made harder because all down the beck cars are parked on the verge and the supposedly unfrequented road up the valley very busy.
ref: 1999 January 21, Alan Bennett, “What I did in 1998”, in London Review of Books, volume 21, number 2:
glosses: Not frequented.
engined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From engine (“noun”) + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: diesel-engined
glosses: Having a specified number or configuration of engines, or having a certain type of engine.
Derived terms: internal combustion-engined
internal-combustion-engined
internal combustion engined
midengined
multiengined
overengined
twin-engined
underengined
engined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See engine (verb).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of engine
saun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sauns
Senses: examples: 1810, Decoy Elephants Catching a Male, in Enos Bronson (editor), Select Reviews of Literature, and Spirit of Foreign Magazines, Volume 3, page 123,
Though on some occasions the mahouts accompany the koomkies up to the saun, yet it is safer, and generally the most sure and easy mode, for them to dismount in some contiguous cover with their blankets and ropes, leading the koomkies to the saun, towards which they proceed in the most cunning style.
glosses: A male elephant that is not part of a herd; a rogue.
supp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supps
Etymology: Clipping of support.
Senses: examples: text: last season i got myself to g4 by abusing swain and other mage supps.
ref: 2022 January 28, u/victingz, “Should I "boost" myself to gold with mage supps ?”, in Reddit, r/supportlol, archived from the original on 18 Nov 2023:
text: Is there any hero that actually builds blink dagger to specifically blink away from a fight? Mostly its an initiation item. Even supps like Oracle and SD build it more to be able to hide and then jump to save carry afaik. Blink can be used to disengage, but I don't think that's ever the primary explicit goal of the hero building it.
ref: 2023 August 5, u/punksterb, “My Dota 2 Defensive Item Alignment Chart”, in Reddit, r/DotA2, archived from the original on 18 Nov 2023:
text: Nah supps were garbage in S1 unless you have short term memory. Dps were overturned due to the passive and they had to buff a few supps (remember the +5 mercy pistol bullets?) and remove the dps passive because of how strong it was. Although I agree that support is definitely the strongest role now.
ref: 2023 September 19, u/sankara123, “Are supports really OP?”, in Reddit, r/Overwatch, archived from the original on 18 Nov 2023:
topics: video-games
glosses: A support (in a competitive video game, a player or character who supports or heals their team's players rather than directly engaging enemies).
pseudorandomness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudo-randomness
Etymology: From pseudorandom + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being pseudorandom.
Derived terms: super-pseudorandomness
pseudotachylitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudotachylitic
form: most pseudotachylitic
Etymology: From pseudotachylite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: of, pertaining to, or characteristic of pseudotachylite
pseudotachylite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudotachylites
form: pseudotachylyte
Etymology: From pseudo- + tachylite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dark, glassy rock generated by frictional heat within faults
Derived terms: pseudotachylitic
pseudovirion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudovirions
Etymology: From pseudo- + virion.
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: A synthetic viral particle that cannot replicate, used to inject foreign nucleic acid into a cell.
pseudy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudy
form: most pseudy
Etymology: From pseud (“poseur”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: But just as I was resolved to endure her pseudy piano meanderings forever, she's surprised us once again.
ref: 2025 August 30, Jo Ellison, “Taylor Swift is entering her conservative era”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 20:
glosses: Characteristic of a pseud; pretentious.
psilophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪləfʌɪt/
ipa: /ˈsaɪləˌfaɪt/
Forms: form: psilophytes
Etymology: Ancient Greek ψῑλός (psīlós, “smooth”) + -phyte (“plant”)
Senses: glosses: Any plant that is adapted to live in a savannah
glosses: Any plant of the former taxon Psilophyta
psittacosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psittacosaurs
Senses: glosses: Any dinosaur of the family Psittacosauridae; a psittacosaurus.
psittacosaurus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌsɪtəkəˈsɔːɹəs/
Forms: form: psittacosauruses
Etymology: Coined in 1923 by Henry Fairfield Osborn from Ancient Greek ψιττακός (psittakós, “parrot”) + Ancient Greek σαύρα (saúra, “lizard”), due to its parrot-like beak
Senses: glosses: Any of several dinosaurs, of the genus Psittacosaurus, that lacked horns
wikipedia: Henry Fairfield Osborn
psittacosaurid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psittacosaurids
Etymology: From the taxonomic name for the family, itself derived from the name of the type genus Psittacosaurus, coined in 1923 by Henry Fairfield Osborn from Ancient Greek ψιττακός (psittakós, “parrot”) + Ancient Greek σαύρα (saúra, “lizard”), due to its parrot-like beak.
Senses: glosses: Any dinosaur of the family †Psittacosauridae; a psittacosaurus
psittacosaurid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more psittacosaurid
form: most psittacosaurid
Etymology: From the taxonomic name for the family, itself derived from the name of the type genus Psittacosaurus, coined in 1923 by Henry Fairfield Osborn from Ancient Greek ψιττακός (psittakós, “parrot”) + Ancient Greek σαύρα (saúra, “lizard”), due to its parrot-like beak.
Senses: glosses: Describing these animals
lexigraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lexigraphies
Etymology: From lexigraph + -y.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Semasiography’ and ‘lexigraphy’ are the two categories of writing, and logography is one type of lexigraphy.
ref: 1997, Barry B. Powell, Ian Morris, A New Companion to Homer, page 5:
text: Without prejudice against Urton's argument that khipus are theoretically capable of lexigraphic reference such as logosyllabography, I have found that actual cord lexigraphy remains conjectural.
ref: 2004, Franck Salomon, The Cord Keepers: Khipus And Cultural Life In A Peruvian Village, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: The representation of words in writing.
glosses: A system of writing in which there is a one-to-one correspondence between symbols and words.
Coordinate terms: semasiography
Related terms: lexigraphic
lexigraphical
lexigraphically
lexicography
Zinacantán
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zinacantan
Etymology: From Spanish Zinacantán, from Nahuatl Tzinacantlan "place of bats", from tzinacan "bat" + -tlan. Compare Tzotzil (the local language of Zinacantán) sots'leb with the same meaning.
Senses: glosses: A municipality (municipio) in Chiapas, Mexico, more fully San Lorenzo Zinacantán.
Zinacantan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Zinacantán.
psorophthalmy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: psorophthalmia
psorophthalmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ψώρα (psṓra, “itch”) + ophthalmia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An itchy inflammation of the eyelids.
Related terms: psorophthalmic
psorophthalmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ælmɪk
Etymology: From psorophthalmia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to psorophthalmia.
psychobabbling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That makes use of psychobabble.
psychobabbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of psychobabble
psychobilly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of psycho + rockabilly.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of popular music, blending rockabilly with punk rock, containing grotesque or humorous lyrics which often draw heavily on the imagery of science fiction and horror films of the 1950s.
psychoeconomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From psycho- + economic.
Senses: glosses: That has characteristics of, or uses techniques from, psychology and economics
Related terms: psychoeconomics
psychoeconomist
behavioral finance
psychogeneticist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychogeneticists
Etymology: From psycho- + geneticist.
Senses: glosses: A specialist in psychogenetics
Related terms: psychogenetic
psychogenetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From psycho- + genetics.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The branch of psychiatry or genetics that studies the effect of genetic inheritance on mental illness.
Related terms: psychogeneticist
psychogeographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychogeographers
Etymology: From psycho- + geographer.
Senses: glosses: A specialist in psychogeography
Related terms: psychogeographic
psychogeography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From psycho- + geography.
Senses: glosses: The study of the effect of geographical factors on the mind or on behaviour
Related terms: psychogeographer
psychogeographic
psychographist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychographists
Senses: glosses: A psychographer
psychographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychographers
Senses: topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
glosses: A medium able to psychograph (to have one's body possessed by spirits in order to let them write texts in the physical world).
glosses: A psychobiographer.
psychograph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: psychographs
form: psychographing
form: psychographed
form: psychographed
Etymology: From psycho- + -graph.
Senses: examples: text: That his personal level of instruction was very low is a well-known fact – and has the effect of enhancing the results of his psychographed poetry.
ref: 2013, Vicente Dobroruka, Second Temple Pseudepigraphy, →ISBN:
text: See the message “Atitude de Amor” (Acts of Love, in a free translation) in psychic work “Seara Bendita”, by various spirits, psychographed by mediums Maria José Costa and Wanderley S. Oliveira.
ref: 2016, Wanderley Oliveira, Inner restoration with no pain, →ISBN:
text: In 1952, Chico psychographed two books in two days: Rotero (172 pages) and Our Father (104 pages).
ref: 2017, Wolfgang Kellert, Beyond What Matters: Do You Know What You Believe?, →ISBN:
glosses: To produce a psychograph (any sense).
Related terms: psychobiographer
psychographic
psychobiography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: psychobiographies
Etymology: From psycho- + biography.
Senses: examples: text: This was the first attempt to create a "psychobiography" of a political leader and the dossier remains a fascinating contemporary insight into the mind of the German leader.
ref: 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 224:
glosses: A biography that emphasises the psychological aspects of its subject.
Related terms: psychobiographic
psychobiographer
psychobiographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychobiographers
Etymology: From psycho- + biographer.
Senses: glosses: An author who writes psychobiographies
Related terms: psychobiographical
mast cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mast cells
Etymology: From German Mastzelle f, "feeding cell," coined in 1878 by immunologist Paul Ehrlich.
Senses: glosses: A resident cell of connective tissue that contains many granules rich in histamine and heparin.
Synonyms: mastocyte
Related terms: basophil
Itzcoatl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Itzcóatl
form: Itzcohuatl
form: Izcoatl
form: Izcohuatl
form: Ytzcoatl
form: Ytzcohuatl
form: Yzcohuatl
Etymology: From Classical Nahuatl Ītzcōātl, from itztli (“obsidian”) + cōātl (“snake”).
Senses: examples: text: Huitzilihuitl reigned twenty years, and died in 1409, and was succeeded by his brother Chimalpopoca, who, dying by his own hands in prison, to which he was tracherously conveyed by the king of Acolhuacan, was succeeded by Itzcoatl, the son of Acamapitzin, by a slave.
ref: 1818, R. H. Bonnycastle, Spanish America:
text: He took another wife, and had by her a son, Hiutzilihiutl [sic], and by his concubines several children, of whom Izcoatl was the most renowned.
ref: 1859, Peter F. Stout, Nicaragua: Past, Present and Future:
glosses: The fourth ruler of Tenochtitlan.
mast cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mast cell
historial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪsˈtɔːɹiəl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more historial
form: most historial
Etymology: From Middle English historial, from Middle French historial, from Latin historiālis: compare French historial.
Senses: glosses: Historical.
vialing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vial
vialed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vial
init
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.ɪt/
rhymes: -ɪnɪt
Forms: form: inits
Etymology: Clipping of initialize or initialization.
Senses: examples: text: After the sixth successive system init he had to concede that the database was corrupt.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Clipping of initialization.
init
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.ɪt/
rhymes: -ɪnɪt
Forms: form: inits
form: initing
form: inited
form: inited
Etymology: Clipping of initialize or initialization.
Senses: examples: text: It actually only requires a few bytes to be zeroised to init the drive.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Clipping of initialize.
init
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.ɪt/
rhymes: -ɪnɪt
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of innit.
phialing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of phial
phialed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of phial
in-tray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: in-trays
Senses: glosses: A desktop organizer; inbox, in-basket.
examples: text: What will be at the top of the new General Secretary's in-tray?
ref: 2021 May 19, Paul Clifton asks Mick Cash, “I am retiring on my own terms”, in RAIL, number 931, page 51:
glosses: The amount of new work yet to be done.
Derived terms: in-tray exercise
in-tray training
consociationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consociationism
Etymology: From consociational + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Where consociationalism and federalism overlay one another, moreover, the continuity of the latter depends on the stability of consociationalism.
ref: 1995, Hudson Meadwell, “8: Quebec Independence and Secession in the Developed West”, in Sukumar Periwal, editor, Notions of Nationalism, page 140:
text: Consociationalism has been described by its best-known proponent as a system of government based on a "cartel of elites."
ref: 1996, Ian Shapiro, Democracy's Place: Air Power and Coercion in War, page 102:
text: The main weakness of consociationalism is that its main successful cases have taken place in Western Europe among groups that have not been in open military conflict with each other. It cannot be established that those societies would not have remained peaceful without consociationalism.
ref: 2002, Thomas G. Mitchell, Indispensable Traitors: Liberal Parties in Settler Conflicts, page 133:
glosses: Political consociation; government through guaranteed group representation.
axioma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăksĭōʹmə
ipa: /æksɪˈəʊmə/
Forms: form: axiomata
Etymology: From the Latin axiōma, from the Ancient Greek ἀξίωμα (axíōma): see axiom.
Senses: glosses: An axiom.
Derived terms: axioma generale
intershell
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntɚˌʃɛl/
Etymology: From inter- + shell.
Senses: examples: text: "This cluster is unusual in that its outermost shell has fewer atoms than the underlying shell, and CO ligands bridge intershell metal atoms."
ref: 2007 September 21, Phil Szuromi, “Chemistry: Bigger with Platinum”, in Science 317, published 1651:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Between shells.
intershell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntɚˌʃɛl/
Forms: form: intershells
Etymology: From inter- + shell.
Senses: examples: text: "In this inner portion of the intershell 13C and N are totally absent, but there is some 16O."
ref: 1981, A. Renzini, “Evolutionary Effects of Mass Loss in Low-Mass Stars”, in Effects of Mass Loss on Stellar Evolution, →ISBN, page 332:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The layer between two stellar shells, particularly between the hydrogen and helium shells.
psychohydraulic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From psycho- + hydraulic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Describing a mechanistic model of behaviour in which the effects of drives are interpreted as those of pressure on a fluid.
Related terms: psychohydraulics
psychohydraulics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From psycho- + hydraulics.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A mechanistic model of behaviour in which the effects of drives are interpreted as those of pressure on a fluid
Related terms: psychohydraulic
psychoimmunology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From psycho- + immunology.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A branch of medicine that studies psychological effects upon the immune system
Related terms: psychoneuroimmunology
psychoneuroimmunologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to psychoneuroimmunology
Synonyms: psychoneuroimmunological
psychoneuroimmunological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From psycho- + neuroimmunological.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to psychoneuroimmunology
Synonyms: psychoneuroimmunologic