cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ptarmigan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑːmɪɡən/
Forms: form: ptarmigan
form: ptarmigans
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic tarmachan, of unknown origin. The pt- comes from a mistaken belief in a Greek origin, as if related to ptero- (“wing”).
Senses: glosses: Any of three species of small grouse in the genus Lagopus found in subarctic tundra areas of North America and Eurasia.
Synonyms: sense: species of small grouse
word: lagopus
word: rype
Derived terms: rock ptarmigan
Lagopus muta
white-tailed ptarmigan
Lagopus leucura
willow ptarmigan
Lagopus lagopus
fuck up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌkˌʌp/
ipa: /ˌfʌkˈʌp/
rhymes: (verb) -ʌp
Forms: form: fuck ups
Senses: examples: text: The heart of the matter is this: feminism’s been hijacked by the dark forces of judginess, by our communally created fear that our every deed, word, thought, joke and Tweet is being monitored for fuck ups.
ref: 2015, Polly Vernon, “Feminist Fatigue, Fit Shame and FOGIW”, in Hot Feminist: Modern Feminism with Style without Judgement, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, part 1 (Non-Judgement Day), page 31:
glosses: Alternative spelling of fuckup.
fuck up
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌkˌʌp/
ipa: /ˌfʌkˈʌp/
rhymes: (verb) -ʌp
ipa: /ˌfʌkˈʌp/
rhymes: (verb) -ʌp
ipa: /ˈfʌkˌʌp/
ipa: /ˌfʌkˈʌp/
rhymes: (verb) -ʌp
Senses: examples: text: Will you just fuck up? I can't hear.
glosses: Ellipsis of shut the fuck up.
detective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈtɛktɪv/
rhymes: -ɛktɪv
Etymology: The adjective is from Classical Latin dētēct-, past participial stem of dētegō (“to detect”), + -ive. The noun is an ellipsis of detective policeman, detective officer, or a similar construction.
Senses: glosses: Employed in detecting.
Arabia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹeɪ.bi.ə/
rhymes: -eɪbiə
Etymology: From Latin Arabia, from Ancient Greek Ἀραβία (Arabía).
Senses: glosses: A peninsula of West Asia between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; includes Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates.
qualifier: broader sense
glosses: The region of West Asia within or adjacent to the Arabian Plate; Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the Egyptian Sinai, Palestine and the United Arab Emirates.
Derived terms: Arabian
Arabia Felix
Arabia Terra
Federation of South Arabia
Related terms: Arab
Arabic
All Fools' Day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: All Fools' Days
Senses: glosses: April 1, a day when practical jokes are traditionally played
Synonyms: April Fools' Day
rupture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌptʃə/
Forms: form: ruptures
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French rupture, or its source, Latin ruptūra (“a breaking, rupture (of a limb or vein)”) and Medieval Latin ruptūra (“a road, a field, a form of feudal tenure, a tax, etc.”), from the participle stem of rumpere (“to break, burst”).
Senses: examples: text: Hatch from the egg, that soon, / Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed / Their callow young.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: A burst, split, or break.
examples: text: He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.
ref: 1825, Edward Everett, Claims of the United States on Naples and Holland:
text: Thus a war was kindled with Lubec; Denmark took part with the king's enemies, and made use of a frivolous pretence, which demonstrated the inclination of his Danish majesty to come to a rupture.
ref: 1761, The Modern Part of an Universal History:
glosses: A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
Derived terms: modulus of rupture
rupture of membranes
rupture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌptʃə/
Forms: form: ruptures
form: rupturing
form: ruptured
form: ruptured
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French rupture, or its source, Latin ruptūra (“a breaking, rupture (of a limb or vein)”) and Medieval Latin ruptūra (“a road, a field, a form of feudal tenure, a tax, etc.”), from the participle stem of rumpere (“to break, burst”).
Senses: glosses: To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: To dehisce irregularly.
major arcana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Besides the ten numeral cards and the four court cards (King, Queen, Knight, Page) for each of the four suits (Cups, Coins, Clubs, Swords), there are twenty-one tarots proper (also called the Major Arcana), plus The Fool.
ref: 1977 [1969], Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver, The Castle of Crossed Destinies:
glosses: The 22 trumps of a deck of tarot cards.
Related terms: minor arcana
burn one's candle at both ends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: burns one's candle at both ends
form: burning one's candle at both ends
form: burned one's candle at both ends
form: burned one's candle at both ends
form: burnt one's candle at both ends
form: burnt one's candle at both ends
Senses: examples: text: She has been burning her candle at both ends lately, trying to put it together on time.
glosses: Alternative form of burn the candle at both ends.
ploy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: ploys
Etymology: Possibly from a shortened form of employ or deploy. Or from earlier ploye, from Middle English, borrowed from Middle French ployer (compare modern plier), from Latin plicāre.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: ruse, stratagem
text: The free T-shirt is really a ploy to get you inside to see their sales pitch.
text: 'Bide here,' he says, 'and boil the wine till I return. This is a ploy of my own on which no man follows me.' And there was that in his face, as he spoke, which chilled the wildest, and left them well content to keep to the good claret and the saft seat, and let the daft laird go his own ways.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
ref: 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:
glosses: A tactic, strategy, or scheme.
glosses: Sport; frolic.
glosses: Employment.
Derived terms: counterploy
ratings ploy
Trollope ploy
ploy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: ploys
form: ploying
form: ployed
form: ployed
Etymology: Probably abbreviated from deploy.
Senses: examples: text: Troops drawn up so as to show an extended front, with slight depth, are said to be deployed; when the depth is considerable and the front comparatively small, they are said to be in ployed formation.
ref: 1881, Thomas Wilhelm, A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer:
topics: government
military
politics
war
antonyms: deploy
glosses: To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision.
gimmick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪm.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪmɪk
Forms: form: gimmicks
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly a rough anagram of magic or from gimme.
Senses: examples: text: The box had a gimmick to make the coin appear to vanish.
text: Epperlein and Tucker focus on two featherweight hopefuls: Dustin Poirier, a formidable contender who’s looking to parlay a history of schoolyard violence and street-fighting into a potential career, and Albert Stainback, a more thoughtful yet more erratic and undisciplined fighter whose chief gimmick is entering the ring wearing a hat like the one Malcolm McDowell wore in A Clockwork Orange.
ref: April 19 2012, Scott Tobias, “Fightville”, in AV Club:
text: Rear Admiral Mikhailovich: I don't begrudge the politicians' decision to throw you to the Council. It's an... opportunity. I do begrudge this overdesigned piece of tin, though.
Shepard: The Normandy is a fine ship, sir. She's served us well so far.
Rear Admiral Mikhailovich: It's a gimmick, Commander. Useless in a stand-up fight.
Rear Admiral Mikhailovich: This experiment diverted billions from our apportions bills. For the same price, we could've had a heavy cruiser.
Rear Admiral Mikhailovich: But no, we had to make nice to the turians. Throw money at a co-developed boondoggle.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:
glosses: A trick or device used to attain some end.
examples: text: The contest was a gimmick to get people to sign up for their mailing list.
glosses: A ploy or strategy used to attract attention or gain traction.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A gimmick capacitor.
glosses: A night out with one's friends.
Derived terms: gimmick account
gimmick blog
gimmickery
gimmickless
gimmickry
gimmicky
gimmick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪm.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪmɪk
Forms: form: gimmicks
form: gimmicking
form: gimmicked
form: gimmicked
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly a rough anagram of magic or from gimme.
Senses: examples: text: The magician's box was gimmicked with a wire that made it appear to open on its own.
glosses: To rig or set up with a trick or device.
quintuple
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɪnˈtʃuːp(ə)l/
ipa: /-ˈtjuː-/
ipa: /kwɪnˈtʌp(ə)l/
ipa: /-ˈtu-/
rhymes: -uːpəl
rhymes: -ʌpəl
Etymology: From Middle French quintuple, from Latin quīntuplus, from quīntus (“fifth”) + -plus (“-ple”).
Senses: glosses: having five parts or members
glosses: five times as much
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: having five crotchets in a bar
Synonyms: pentuple
pentaplex
quintuplex
Derived terms: Quintuple Alliance
quintuple-click
quintuple double
quintuple meter
quintuple star system
quintuple time
quintuple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɪnˈtʃuːp(ə)l/
ipa: /-ˈtjuː-/
ipa: /kwɪnˈtʌp(ə)l/
ipa: /-ˈtu-/
rhymes: -uːpəl
rhymes: -ʌpəl
Forms: form: quintuples
Etymology: From Middle French quintuple, from Latin quīntuplus, from quīntus (“fifth”) + -plus (“-ple”).
Senses: glosses: a fivefold amount
quintuple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɪnˈtʃuːp(ə)l/
ipa: /-ˈtjuː-/
ipa: /kwɪnˈtʌp(ə)l/
ipa: /-ˈtu-/
rhymes: -uːpəl
rhymes: -ʌpəl
Forms: form: quintuples
form: quintupling
form: quintupled
form: quintupled
Etymology: From Middle French quintuple, from Latin quīntuplus, from quīntus (“fifth”) + -plus (“-ple”).
Senses: glosses: To multiply by five.
glosses: To be multiplied by five.
Synonyms: pentuple
Derived terms: quintuplet
quintuplicate
Related terms: single
solo
double
twofold
triple
threefold
quadruple
fourfold
quintuple
pentuple
fivefold
loner
singleton
monad
pair
couple
twosome
duo
dyad
trio
threesome
triad
troika
foursome
quartet
tetrad
fivesome
quintet
pentad
only one
singlet
twin
one of two
doublet
triplet
one of three
quadruplet
one of four
quintuplet
pentuplet
one of five
sextuple
hextuple
sixfold
septuple
heptuple
sevenfold
octuple
eightfold
ninefold
nonuple
tenfold
decuple
sixsome
sextet
hexad
sevensome
septet
heptad
eightsome
octet
octad
ninesome
nonet
ennead
tensome
decet
decad
sextuplet
hextuplet
one of six
one of seven
septuplet
heptuplet
octuplet
one of eight
one of nine
nonuplet
one of ten
decuplet
elevenfold
undecuple
hendecuple
twelvefold
duodecuple
thirteenfold
tredecuple
a hundredfold
centuple
multiple
elevensome
twelvesome
thirteensome
hundredsome
one of eleven
undecuplet
hendecuplet
one of twelve
duodecuplet
one of thirteen
tredecuplet
one of a hundred
centuplet
one of many
multiplet
maggie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæɡi/
rhymes: -æɡi
Forms: form: maggies
form: maggy
Etymology: From magpie + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Any of several kinds of bird in the family Corvidae, especially Pica pica.
glosses: A superficially similar Australian bird, Gymnorhina tibicen or Cracticus tibicen.
NED
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of New English Dictionary.
glosses: Initialism of National Endowment for Democracy.
NED
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NEDs
Senses: coordinate_terms: bogan
glosses: Acronym of non-educated delinquent.
NED
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of no evidence of disease.
dish out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dishes out
form: dishing out
form: dished out
form: dished out
Senses: glosses: To put (food) on to a dish ready for eating.
glosses: To distribute (a thing).
examples: text: She can dish out criticism but she can't take it.
text: Saka was a threat from the first whistle; Ukraine rightly wary of him and dishing out the usual whacks.
ref: March 26 2023, David Hytner, “Kane and Bukayo Saka combine against Ukraine for England’s perfect Euros start”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To distribute or deliver something.
topics: architecture
glosses: To hollow out, as a gutter in stone or wood.
Synonyms: topics: food
lifestyle
word: dish up
topics: food
lifestyle
word: serve
sense: distribute
word: distribute
sense: distribute
word: give out
sense: distribute
word: hand out
sense: distribute
word: hand round
sense: distribute
word: pass out
sense: distribute
word: pass round
word: give out
Cobol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of COBOL.
krone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kroner
Etymology: From Danish krone (“crown”) and Norwegian krone. Doublet of corona, crown, korona, koruna, krona, and króna.
Senses: synonyms: crown
glosses: The currency of Iceland, Denmark (including Greenland and the Faroe Islands) and Norway, divided into 100 øre, except in Iceland where 1 króna = 100 aurar.
krone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kronen
Senses: glosses: The currency of German-Austria and Liechtenstein after the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1919) until the introduction of the Austrian schilling and, in Liechtenstein, the Swiss franc.
C++
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsi.plʌs.plʌs/
Etymology: From the name of the C language (on which it was based) and ++, the increment operator in both languages, suggesting an addition to C.
Senses: examples: text: Rvalue references were introduced into C++0x to provide a mechanism for capturing an rvalue temporary (which could previously be done in C++ using traditional lvalue references to const) and allowing modification of its value (which could not).
ref: 2010 March 12, William M. Miller, “A Taxonomy of Expression Value Categories”, in C++ Standards Committee Papers, page 2:
topics: computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A multiparadigm high-level compiled programming language that is a more advanced derivative of C.
Derived terms: C++er
Related terms: C
BCPL
tuple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʊpəl/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃuːpəl/
ipa: /ˈtjuːpəl/
ipa: /ˈtʌpəl/
ipa: /ˈtuːpəl/
ipa: /ˈtʌpəl/
rhymes: -uːpəl
rhymes: -ʌpəl
Forms: form: tuples
Etymology: From the ending of the words quintuple, sextuple; from Latin -plus.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: A finite sequence of terms.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A single row in a relational database.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A set of comma-separated values passed to a program or operating system as a parameter to a function call.
examples: text: Both Python and Haskell have a tuple data type as well as a list data type.
text: Unlike lists, tuples are not formed by consing.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A fixed-size container data type similar to a list that can hold different types of elements.
Related terms: -tuple
tuplet
tuplet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tuːplət/
ipa: /tʌplət/
ipa: /tjʊplət/
ipa: /tjuːplət/
ipa: /tjʊplɪt/
ipa: /tjuːplɪt/
Forms: form: tuplets
Etymology: From the endings of words such as quintuplet and septuplet. Compare tuple.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A note value with a nonstandard duration; a set of notes subdivided within a single beat.
Related terms: triplet
dissatisfied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈsætɪsˌfaɪd/
Forms: form: more dissatisfied
form: most dissatisfied
form: disatisfied
Etymology: From dis- + satisfied.
Senses: glosses: Feeling or displaying disappointment or a lack of contentment.
examples: text: We offer refunds to dissatisfied customers.
text: The good news for dissatisfied users of Birmingham New Street is that none of these criticisms have gone unnoticed.
ref: 2020 July 29, Paul Stephen, “A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail, page 54:
glosses: Not satisfied (e.g. with the quality of something).
Synonyms: unsatisfied
displeased
Derived terms: dissatisfiedness
Related terms: dissatisfaction
dissatisfied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈsætɪsˌfaɪd/
Forms: form: disatisfied
Etymology: From dis- + satisfied.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dissatisfy
Arab League
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Arab League
Etymology: Ellipsis of League of Arab States, the organization’s official name.
Senses: glosses: An international organization of Arabic-speaking countries.
Shi'ite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Shi'ite
form: most Shi'ite
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shiite.
Shi'ite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shi'ites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shiite.
ulama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ultimately from Classical Nahuatl ōllamaliztli. Doublet of ullamaliztli.
Senses: glosses: A (modern) ball game, descended from tlachtli.
ulama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic عُلَمَاء (ʕulamāʔ). Doublet of ulema and olema.
Senses: examples: text: There he […] became disillusioned with much of the Islamic clerical establishment, and first expressed his contempt for what he called ‘religious secularists’, those foolish ulama who attempt to separate politics from religion.
ref: 2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 469:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Alternative form of ulema.
ulama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Sinhalese [Term?].
Senses: examples: text: There is a bird in Ceylon, which the natives call ulama, or the demon bird, which utters most loud and ear-piercing screams, strongly resembling the shrieks of a human being in severe bodily agony.
ref: 1849 June 24, The Dublin University Magazine, page 692:
glosses: The devil bird (an avian cryptid of Sri Lanka)
barakah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic بَرَكَة (baraka).
Senses: glosses: The spiritual power or wisdom that resides in holy places and people, especially in a Sufi.
Sufi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uːfi
Forms: form: Sufis
form: Sofee
form: Sofi
form: Suphy
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish صوفی (sufi), from Arabic صُوفِيّ (ṣūfiyy, “man of wool”).
Senses: examples: text: Some admired the external beauties of the objects they beheld, like the nightingale in love with the roſe; ſome inchanted by the concert around, like Suphys delighting in madneſs, toſſed the cup of exultation into the ſkies[.]
[Footnote] Suphys are a sect of mad philoſophers.
ref: 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page v:
glosses: A mystic Muslim; a Muslim ascetic; a practitioner of Sufism.
Derived terms: Sufism
Sufist
Sufite
Related terms: dervish
Sufism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sufi + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A family of spiritual schools in Islam emphasizing mysticism and asceticism.
bid'a
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic بَدَعَ (badaʕa)
Arabic بِدْعَة (bidʕa)bor.
English bid'a
Borrowed from Arabic بِدْعَة (bidʕa).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: heretical innovation in Islamic religious beliefs or worship
roguish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊɡɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈɹoʊɡɪʃ/
rhymes: -əʊɡɪʃ
Forms: form: more roguish
form: most roguish
form: rogueish
Etymology: From rogue + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Unprincipled or unscrupulous.
examples: text: "She'll be a match for poor little Cupid, with his tiny bow and arrow, I dare say," said Grace Fitzgerald, with a roguish eye.
ref: 1840, The Novel Newspaper, volume 2, page 8:
text: Back at the sauna, Mr. Pylhhänen gives a roguish grin and says he has found the answer to the “happiest country” debate – in a very Finnish way, of course.
ref: 2025 July 30, Mark Sappenfield, “What makes Finland the ‘world’s happiest nation’? In a word, simplicity.”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
synonyms: roguey
glosses: Mischievous and playful.
Derived terms: roguishly
roguishness
cartophily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From carto- (“card”) + -phily.
Senses: glosses: the hobby of collecting trade cards, especially cigarette cards
Related terms: cartophile
cartophilia
cartophilic
cartophilist
chandlery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃændləɹi/
/ˈt͡ʃɑːndləɹi/
Forms: form: chandleries
Etymology: From Middle French chandelerie, from chandelier (“chandler”). Equivalent to candle + -ery.
Senses: glosses: The art or trade of candlemaking.
glosses: A business, shop or warehouse used in candlemaking.
glosses: An operation (usually, a business) which provides supplies.
glosses: The merchandise of a chandler.
codicology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codicologies
Etymology: Borrowed from French codicologie (with ending adapted to -ology), from Latin cōdic- (stem of cōdex) + French -ologie.
Senses: glosses: The study of codices (early handwritten books).
Derived terms: codicologist
Related terms: codicological
palaeography
aerodonetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the study of the stability of aircraft in flight, especially the study of gliders
aerography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From aero- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The production of weather charts.
glosses: A branch of surrealist art in which a three-dimensional object is used as a stencil.
Derived terms: aerographer
aerostatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aero- + statics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the study of gases in equilibrium and of balloons or aircraft in varying atmospheric conditions
Coordinate terms: aerodynamics
Related terms: aerostat
aerostatic
agrostology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄγρωστις (ágrōstis, “grass”), from ἄγρωστης (ágrōstēs, “farmer”), from ἀγρός (agrós, “field”) + λόγος (lógos, “study, speech, reason”).
Senses: examples: text: From 1905 to 1936 she collaborated with Albert Spear Hitchcock, a specialist in agrostology, the study of grasses.
ref: 1986, Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie, Women in Science: Antiquity Through the Nineteenth Century:
synonyms: graminology
glosses: The scientific study of grasses.
Coordinate terms: agrostography
Derived terms: agrostologic
agrostological
agrostologist
paleoagrostology
arctophily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The hobby of collecting teddy bears.
Related terms: arctophilia
areography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From areographic.
Senses: topics: astronomy
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: The scientific study of the planet Mars' geographical features; geography of Mars.
Derived terms: areographer
Related terms: areology
selenography
audiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːdiˈɒləd͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˌɔdiˈɑlədʒi/
Forms: form: audiologies
Etymology: From audio- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The study of the auditory and vestibular systems, and associated disorders.
glosses: An allied health profession pertaining to the assessment and rehabilitation of hearing and balance disorders.
Derived terms: audiologic
audiologist
audiological
balneology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balneologies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βαλανεῖον (balaneîon, “bath”) and -λογία (-logía, “study”).
Senses: glosses: The study of baths and bathing, especially therapeutic bathing.
Derived terms: balneological
balneologist
carpology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From carpo- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: the study of the structure of seeds and fruit
Derived terms: carpological
carpologically
carpologist
chalcography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chalco- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: engraving on copper or brass
Derived terms: chalcographist
conchology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒŋˈkɒləd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: conchologies
Etymology: From conch or Ancient Greek κόγχη (kónkhē) + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: "Thank goodness, I am not a child," said Lady Mandeville, turning over a collection of those juvenile tomes, which are to make the rising generation so much wiser than their grandfathers or grandmothers—catechisms of conchology, geology, mathematical questions for infants, geography, astronomy; "the child may be 'father to the man;' but the said father must have had some trouble with his offspring."
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 94:
text: The least dreadful among the essays stacked and waiting to be corrected would be that of young Master Jefferson Davis, who when imprisoned by Andrew Johnson in 1866 will ask his physician at Fortress Monroe to procure a few volumes of "conchology, geology, or botany," he desiring to commune with the interests of more innocent days.
ref: 2011, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead:
glosses: The study of molluscs and their shells.
glosses: The hobby of shell collecting.
Derived terms: conchological
conchologist
conchologize
Related terms: malacology
otorhinolaryngology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑtoˌɹaɪnoˌlæɹɪŋˈɡɑləd͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˌɒtəʊˌraɪnəʊˌlæɹɪŋˈɡɒləd͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˌɒtə-/
ipa: /-raɪnə-/
Etymology: From oto- (“ear”) + rhino- (“nose”) + laryngo- (“throat”) + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: Most of our practical knowledge of nasal accessory sinus disease has been acquired within the past two decades and certainly our advance in it during the past decade is greater than in any other branch of otorhinolaryngology.
ref: 1921, “Pennsylvania Medical Journal”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 24, page 551:
text: Foreign body aspiration may require otorhinolaryngology consultation for rigid bronchoscopy.
ref: 2007, Comprehensive Pediatric Hospital Medicine, “Chapter 76: Aspiration”, in Lisa B. Zaoutis, Vincent W. Chiang, editors, (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 485:
text: The German inventor Karl Storz (1911-1996) introduced the system into otorhinolaryngology and developed cold light illumination. This marked the beginning of a new era in otorhinolaryngology—the era of endoscopy.
ref: 2009, Hans Behrbohm, Oliver Kaschke, Ear, Nose, and Throat Diseases: With Head and Neck Surgery, page 132:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Otolaryngology.
Synonyms: sense: otolaryngology
word: ear, nose and throat
sense: otolaryngology
word: ENT
Derived terms: otorhinolaryngological
otorhinolaryngologically
otorhinolaryngologist
Related terms: ENT
air bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air beds
Senses: glosses: A bed that is inflated with air; typically used as a portable, temporary bed.
Synonyms: air mattress
lilo
coopery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkuːpəɹi/
Forms: form: cooperies
Etymology: From cooper + -y.
Senses: glosses: Cooperage (the art or trade of a cooper).
glosses: Cooperage (cooper's workshop).
coopery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkuːpəɹi/
Etymology: From cooper + -y.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a cooper; coopered.
cosmetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒzˈmɛt.ɪks/
ipa: /kɑzˈmɛt.ɪks/
ipa: [kɑzˈmɛɾ.ɪks]
ipa: /kɔzˈmet.ɪks/
ipa: [kɔzˈmeɾ.ɪks]
Etymology: From French cosmétique, from Ancient Greek κοσμητική (kosmētikḗ, “the art of dress and ornament”), from κοσμητικός (kosmētikós), an adjective of κοσμέω (kosméō, “to order, to arrange, to rule, to adorn, to equip, to dress, to embellish”).
Senses: glosses: Preparations applied externally to change or enhance the beauty of skin, hair, nails, lips, and eyes.
examples: text: In the great fishbowl that we're doing everything in it's kind of unfortunate, but the cosmetics of the thing are more important than what's accomplished — in a great many ways.
ref: 2004, Lewis Sorley, Vietnam Chronicles: The Abrams Tapes, 1968-1972, page 194:
glosses: The way something looks; superficial appearance.
cosmetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒzˈmɛt.ɪks/
ipa: /kɑzˈmɛt.ɪks/
ipa: [kɑzˈmɛɾ.ɪks]
ipa: /kɔzˈmet.ɪks/
ipa: [kɔzˈmeɾ.ɪks]
Etymology: From French cosmétique, from Ancient Greek κοσμητική (kosmētikḗ, “the art of dress and ornament”), from κοσμητικός (kosmētikós), an adjective of κοσμέω (kosméō, “to order, to arrange, to rule, to adorn, to equip, to dress, to embellish”).
Senses: glosses: The study of such products.
Derived terms: cosmetology
neurocosmetics
nutricosmetics
Related terms: cosmetic
craniology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: craniologies
Etymology: From cranio- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The study of the physical characteristics of the human skull.
Derived terms: craniological
craniologist
criminology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: criminologies
Etymology: From criminal + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: "So that then begins a sort of rethinking of my idea of criminology," Weisburd said. "Like most other people, my studies were about people. I said, maybe we ought to be more concerned with places."
ref: 2019, Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers, page 283:
glosses: The study of crime and criminals, especially their behaviour.
Derived terms: biocriminology
criminological
neurocriminology
Related terms: criminological
criminologist
dactylology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdæktɪlˈɒlədʒi/
ipa: /ˌdæktəlˈɑləd͡ʒi/
Senses: glosses: The use of the fingers and hands to communicate ideas, especially by the deaf.
Synonyms: fingerspelling
maniloquism
cheirology
Derived terms: dactylological
Related terms: sign language
deipnosophistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deipno- (“dinner”) + sophistry or deipnosophist + -ry.
Senses: glosses: skilled table talk
deltiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dĕltĭŏʹləjĭ
ipa: /ˌdɛltɪˈɒlədʒɪ/
Etymology: Formed by suffixing the Ancient Greek δελτίον (deltíon) (deltion; the diminutive form of δέλτος (déltos), deltos, “writing tablet”) with the English -logy.
Senses: glosses: The study and collection of postcards.
Hypernyms: sense: study and collection of postcards
word: collection
Derived terms: deltiological
deltiologist
dendrology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛndˈɹɒlədʒi/
ipa: /dɛndˈɹɑlədʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Etymology: From dendro- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: the study of trees and other woody plants
Derived terms: dendrological
dendrologist
Related terms: dendrochronology
dermatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɜːməˈtɒlədʒi/
Forms: form: dermatologies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δέρμα (dérma, “skin, hide”) + -logy. Analysable as dermato- + -logy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The study of the skin and its diseases.
Derived terms: photodermatology
psychodermatology
teledermatology
Related terms: dermatological
dermatologist
oncodermatology
dialectology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dialectologies
Etymology: From dialect + -o- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The study of dialects.
Derived terms: dialectological
dialectologist
Related terms: dialectics
dioptrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dioptric
dioptrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the study of the refraction of light, especially by lenses
dramaturgy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɹæməˌtɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒi/
Forms: form: dramaturgies
Etymology: Borrowed from French dramaturgie.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: The art of dramatic composition for the stage.
Derived terms: dramaturgic
dramaturgical
ecodramaturgy
Related terms: dramaturge
ekistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek οἰκίστικα (oikístika), from οἰκιστής (oikistḗs, “colonizer”). Coined by Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis in 1942.
Senses: glosses: The scientific study of human settlements, and the planning and design of cities and other communities.
geoponics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geoponicks
Senses: glosses: the science of agriculture
Coordinate terms: aeroponics
hydroponics
organoponics
graphology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹæˈfɒ.lə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /ɡɹæˈfɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Forms: form: graphologies
Etymology: From French graphologie, coined by Jean-Hippolyte Michon from Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ, “writing”) + French -logie (“study of”). By surface analysis, grapho- + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: Graphology, or handwriting analysis, is the study and interpretation of handwriting as an indicator of personality. Professional graphologists offer four primary services: graphology classes to hobbyists, personality profiles to help individuals increase their self-knowledge and potential for change, personnel screening and consultation for employers, and questioned document examination, or forensic graphology, to identify forged handwriting and documents for legal purposes.
ref: 1999, Lee Naftali, Joel Naftali, You're Certifiable: The Alternative Career Guide to More Than 700 Certificate Programs, Trade Schools, and Job Opportunities, page 155:
text: The philosopher Ludwig Klages saw graphology as a means to penetrate the deceptive self-presentation of his contemporaries and unveil their true character.
ref: 2003, Michael Hau, The Cult of Health and Beauty in Germany: A Social History, 1890-1930, page 50:
text: Graphology and graphological deviation are likely to be very significant in a mode that lacks non-textual social cues, such as paralanguage, prosody and gesture.
ref: 2006, Bethan Benwell, Elizabeth Stokoe, Discourse and Identity, page 263:
glosses: The study of handwriting, especially as a means of analyzing a person's character.
examples: text: "Talented" children fall into one of two classes: those with an imitative ability who readily absorb the preconceived graphologies they see about them in pictures, magazines and books, and those[…].
ref: 1930, Frances E. O'Brien, Individualism in Child Art, unnumbered page:
text: This 1960 work, like the black works of Rauschenberg and the graphologies of Cy Twombly, is our most patient analysis of multiplicity.
ref: 1984, David Shapiro, Jasper Johns: Drawings 1954-1984, page 29:
glosses: A system of handwriting.
Derived terms: psychographology
Related terms: graphological
graphologist
hagiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hagiologies
Etymology: From hagio- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: literature dealing with the lives of saints
Derived terms: hagiological
hagiologist
Related terms: hagiography
oma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊmə/
rhymes: -əʊmə
Forms: form: omas
Etymology: Borrowed from German Oma.
Senses: examples: text: My children have an oma and an OPA, so I knew that I could put in the O and the A.
ref: 2020 September 1, Deb Amlen, “Sales Spiel in 60 Seconds or Less”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2020:
coordinate_terms: opa
qualifier: among people of German-speaking ancestry
glosses: Grandmother, grandma.
Related terms: baba
codices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊdɪsiːz/
ipa: /ˈkoʊdɪsiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of codex
codex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kōʹdĕks
ipa: /ˈkəʊdɛks/
ipa: /ˈkoʊdɛks/
rhymes: -ɛks
homophone: codecs
Forms: form: codices
form: codexes
Etymology: From Latin cōdex, variant form of caudex (“tree trunk, book, notebook”); compare caudex (in botany). Doublet of code.
Senses: glosses: An early manuscript book.
examples: text: From its inception, the index has provided a window onto the history of the book, for it took the advent of a particular type of book — the codex, a sheaf of pages fastened along one edge — to make an index a practical possibility.
ref: 2022 February 15, Margalit Fox, “Look It Up? Only if You’re Dishonest and Ignorant”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll.
glosses: An official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients.
Derived terms: cryptex
Related terms: topics: botany
biology
natural-sciences
word: caudex
word: code
word: codicology
word: codify
word: codification
word: codifier
word: stemma codicum
sense: an official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients
word: dispensatory
sense: an official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients
word: formulary
sense: an official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients
word: pharmacopoeia
mess hall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mess halls
Etymology: From mess (“military meal”) + hall.
Senses: examples: text: In the mess hall, lunch was served in plastic bowls and paper cups: rice with ragù, sausage soup with day-old bread.
ref: December 7 2022, Simon Shuster, “2022 Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelensky”, in Time, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2023:
synonyms: chow hall
dining hall
dining facility
DFAC
glosses: A military dining room or building on an army or marine base.
Dearborn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪəbɔːn/
Forms: form: Dearborns
Etymology: From Middle English Daborne, Dabernoun, from Old Northern French d'Arborn (literally “of Arbornon”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city in Wayne County, Michigan, United States.
glosses: A city in Buchanan County and Platte County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: Dearborn County.
Derived terms: Dearborn County
Dearborner
Dearborn Heights
Dearbornian
Dearbornistan
Dearborn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪəbɔːn/
Forms: form: Dearborns
Etymology: From Middle English Daborne, Dabernoun, from Old Northern French d'Arborn (literally “of Arbornon”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dearborn.
snake in the grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsneɪk ɪn ðə ˈɡɹɑːs/
ipa: /ˈsneɪk ɪn ðə ˈɡɹæs/
rhymes: -ɑːs
rhymes: -æs
Forms: form: snakes in the grass
Etymology: Calque of Latin latet anguis in herbā (literally “a snake hides in the grass”), from Eclogue III by the Roman poet Virgil (traditionally 70 – 19 B.C.E.). Compare Dutch addertje onder het gras.
Senses: examples: text: The trouble is, I trusted him too much from the start. He has proved to be a snake in the grass.
ref: 1906, Horatio Alger, Jr., “The Iron Works Affair”, in Randy of the River: Or The Adventures of a Young Deckhand (Rise in Life Series), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 57:
text: Is he not here to throw us out—a thief, a spy, a snake in the grass?
ref: 1914, William MacLeod Raine, “‘An Optimistic Guy’”, in A Daughter of the Dons: A Story of New Mexico To-day, New York, N.Y.: G. W. Dillingham Company, →OCLC, page 71:
text: He's a snake in the grass, I tell you guys / He may look dumb but that's just a disguise / He's a mastermind in the ways of espionage.
ref: 1973 June, Charlie Daniels, “Uneasy Rider”, performed by Charlie Daniels, New York, N.Y.: Kama Sutra Records, →OCLC:
text: We were playing in Dallas, when that snake in the grass—Eight Ball, everyone called him—came up on my blind side …
ref: 1978, John Irving, “The World According to Marcus Aurelius”, in The World According to Garp […] (A Henry Robbins Book), New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton, →ISBN, pages 271–272:
text: Following her presidential defeat, [Ségolène] Royal stunned many observers by publicly dumping Socialist Party leader François Hollande – her companion and the father of her four children – and announcing she'd seek his post during the current election. To some, that made Royal the symbol of the strong, modern woman in politics; to others, it cast her as the classic snake in the grass.
ref: 2008 November 21, Bruce Crumley, “Which Woman will Lead France’s Socialists?”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Warner Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2012:
synonyms: backstabber
glosses: A hidden enemy.
wikipedia: Virgil
Related terms: fifth column
grass snake
blech
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɛk/
ipa: /blɛx/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: bleck
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: Blech! Look at all those maggots!
text: Speaking of showering: after my dad’s passing, I realized I was more vested in my puppy’s grooming than my own. […] On more than one occasion, I had to ask myself if I brushed my teeth that day. Blech.
ref: 2023 November 14, Beth Romero, “Be a Weeble”, in Happy AF: Simple Strategies to Get Unstuck, Bounce Back, and Live Your Best Life, Berkeley, Calif.: She Writes Press, →ISBN, chapter 1 (The Art of Letting Go, Bouncing Back, and Being):
glosses: An imitation of the sound of gagging, used to express disgust or disdain.
Synonyms: feh
pfaugh
pish
pshaw
pooh
bah
Derived terms: blechy
bletcherous
blech
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɛk/
ipa: /blɛx/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: bleches
form: bleching
form: bleched
form: bleched
form: bleck
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: glosses: To have the vomiting reflex triggered.
Related terms: gag
argh
blech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɛk/
ipa: /blɛx/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: blechs
Etymology: From Yiddish בלעך (blekh). Related to German Blech.
Senses: glosses: A metal sheet used to cover stovetop burners on Shabbat to allow food to be kept warm without violating the prohibition against cooking.
Synonyms: plata
dialectics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪəˈlɛktɪks/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek διαλεκτική (dialektikḗ, “the art of argument through interactive questioning and answering”), from διαλεκτικός (dialektikós, “competent debater”), from διαλέγομαι (dialégomai, “to participate in a dialogue”), from διά (diá, “inter, through”) + λέγειν (légein, “to speak”).
Senses: examples: text: The dialectics of absolute and relative, concrete and abstract, subject and object, and theory and practice is focused on some of the most important questions in philosophy.
text: None of these processes and modes of thought enters into the framework of metaphysical reasoning. Dialectics, on the other hand, comprehends things and their representations, ideas, in their essential connection, concatenation, motion, origin and ending. Such processes as those mentioned above are, therefore, so many corroborations of its own method of procedure.
ref: 1880, Friedrich Engels, chapter 2, in Socialism: Utopian and Scientific:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A systematic method of argument that attempts to resolve the contradictions in opposing views or ideas.
Synonyms: dialectic
dialectical method
Derived terms: trialectics
dialectics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪəˈlɛktɪks/
Senses: glosses: plural of dialectic
dioptric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /daɪˈɒptɹɪk/
Forms: form: more dioptric
form: most dioptric
Etymology: From Greek διοπτρικός. Compare diopter.
Senses: glosses: Acting as a medium for sight; making use of refraction (of lenses, etc.).
examples: text: [W]ould the new Narcissus—without any dioptric or sciatherical computing—grasp the alternating skirmish of light and shadow.
ref: 2014, Umberto Eco, Island of the Day Before, London: Vintage Books, page 363:
glosses: Pertaining to a diopter.
glosses: Capable of being seen through.
dioptric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /daɪˈɒptɹɪk/
Forms: form: dioptrics
Etymology: From Greek διοπτρικός. Compare diopter.
Senses: glosses: The branch of optics concerned with refraction.
glosses: A dioptric telescope.
Derived terms: catadioptric
dioptrical
dioptrically
rhizome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪzoʊm/
Forms: form: rhizomes
form: rhizoma
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥίζωμα (rhízōma). As philosophical metaphor, used by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.
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:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: race
rootstalk
glosses: A horizontal, underground stem of some plants that sends out roots and shoots (scions) from its nodes.
examples: text: The corpus of Kafka's writing, they argue, is ‘a rhizome, a burrow’ (K 7)—an uncentered and meandering growth like crab grass, a complex, aleatory network of pathways like a rabbit warren. A rhizome, as Deleuze and Guattari explain in Rhizome: an Introduction (1976), is the antithesis of a root-tree structure, or ‘arborescence’, the structural model which has dominated Western thought from Porphyrian trees, to Linnaean taxonomies, to Chomskyan sentence diagrams.
ref: 1989, Ronald Bogue, Deleuze and Guattari, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 107:
text: Critical theorists have often drawn from Deleuze and Guattari's notion of the rhizome when discussing the potential of the Internet. While the Internet may structurally appear as a rhizome, its day-to-day usage by millions via search engines precludes experiencing the random interconnectedness and potential democratizing function.
ref: 2008, A. Hess, “Reconsidering the Rhizome”, in Amanda Spink, Michael Zimmer, editors, Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 35:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
qualifier: critical theory
glosses: A so-called “image of thought” that apprehends multiplicities.
Derived terms: rhizomatic
rhizomatous
Related terms: licorice
mycorrhiza
Laestrygonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Laestrygonian
crepuscule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɛp.ʊˌskjuːl/
ipa: /kɹɪˈpʌs.kjul/
ipa: /ˈkɹɛp.əˌskjul/
Forms: form: crepuscules
form: crepuscle
Etymology: From Middle French crepuscule m, ultimately from Latin crepusculum n.
Senses: examples: text: Van watched them with the same pleasurable awe he had experienced as a child, when, lost in the purple crepuscule of an Italian hotel garden, in an alley of cypresses, he supposed they were golden ghouls or the passing fancies of the garden.
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 54:
glosses: Twilight.
Synonyms: blue hour
gloaming
twilight
Related terms: crepuscular
smokefall
crepusculum