cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
graying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gray
grayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
homophone: grade
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gray
crue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crues
Senses: examples: text: […] hee would seeme to make that to be, which is not, and so doth winne to himselfe from simple people that runne after men of that cursed crue […]
ref: 1620, Edward Elton, An Exposition of the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Colossians, page 101:
glosses: Obsolete form of crew.
crues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crue
hauts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haut
gun down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: guns down
form: gunning down
form: gunned down
form: gunned down
Senses: examples: text: When Manzanas arrived home from work, the assailant gunned him down from ambush with a volley of pistol shots and escaped across the nearby border to France.
ref: 1968 September 6, “Spain: The Basque Rebellion”, in Time:
glosses: To kill by means of a firearm, especially deliberately and in a brutal manner.
examples: text: The CEO gunned down that idea before we could present it to the board.
glosses: To shoot down; to put an end to.
examples: text: In the cell diagonally across from mine, a prisoner regularly “gunned down” the nurse on her morning rounds. He deliberately masturbated so that she'd see him through the cell door window as he ejaculated.
ref: 2004, Jens Soering, Yoga of Heart:
synonyms: gun
glosses: To masturbate while making sustained eye contact with someone — typically a female prison officer — as a form of intimidation.
raw_tags: of a male prisoner
intermittents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intermittent
gerenuk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɛɹɛnuːk/
Forms: form: gerenuks
form: greenuk
Etymology: From Somali garanuug.
Senses: examples: text: Unaccountably, he finds himself thinking of gerenuks and gazelles.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 139:
glosses: A type of long-necked gazelle, Litocranius walleri, native to central and eastern Africa.
Synonyms: giraffe gazelle
Waller's gazelle
germaphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Take mobile wallet apps like Apple Pay and Square. While these have been around for years, some people stuck with credit cards and cash. But new germaphobia finally pushed more of us to try the contact-free phone payments as opposed to a card swipe.
ref: 2021 January 6, Brian X. Chen, “The Tech That Will Invade Our Lives in 2021”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative form of germophobia.
Related terms: germaphobe
germaphobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: germaphobes
Senses: examples: text: Well, President Trump is a germaphobe. He’s not going to get a chip in the brain. He’s a germaphobe. Shaking hands was a big deal. I don’t think you’re going to get a chip in the brain.
ref: 2025 January 31, Ross Douthat, quoting Steve Bannon, “Steve Bannon on ‘Broligarchs’ vs. Populism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative form of germophobe.
kendō
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Modern kendō is largely practiced as a thriving sport in educational institutions, military and police agencies, and in companies. While predominantly a sport, kendō includes the essence of spiritual training.
ref: 1969, Donn F[rederick] Draeger, Robert W[illiam] Smith, “Japan”, in Asian Fighting Arts, Tokyo; Palo Alto, Calif.: Kodansha International Ltd., published 1970 (3rd printing), →ISBN, page 102:
text: A natural at kendō while a student who later headed his alma mater’s Kendō Club, he was also an important figure in the publishing field and a friend of Mishima’s.
ref: 2012, Naoki Inose with Hiroaki Sato, “Shinpūren, Men of the Divine Wind”, in Persona: A Biography of Yukio Mishima, Berkeley, Calif.: Stone Bridge Press, →ISBN, page 481:
text: The same approach was maintained through the 1990s, when the guidelines for budō in school encouraged kendō practice as a way for every individual to ‘be rich in humanity and strong in body’ but also emphasised the idea of Japanese budō as a unique component of their we-group identity.
ref: 2019, Raúl Sánchez García, “Reformulation, expansion, and hybridisation of Japanese martial arts”, in The Historical Sociology of Japanese Martial Arts (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part III (Martial artists):
glosses: Alternative form of kendo.
γ-globulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: γ-globulins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gamma globulin.
jūdōka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jūdōka
form: jūdōkas
Senses: examples: text: Such words as “konjō (guts)” and “hard training” became popular since 1964, and popular songs hailed the jūdōkas and the Japanese chess players who became champions after a hard-working and self-abnegating life in songs such as “Yawara (Jūdō)” (1965) or “Ōhshō (the King)” (1963).
ref: 1970, Kinhide Mushakōji, “The Changing Japanese Foreign Policy Attitudes in the 1960’s”, in Annual Review, volume 5, Tokyo: Japan Institute of International Affairs, →OCLC, page 8:
text: Kaori says it would be impossible to give up jūdō now because it had become a part of her life. The thought that she has foreign jūdōkas to compete against makes her work out harder, she says.
ref: 1981, Chūjō Kazuo, “People in the Spotlight: Seko Toshihiko and Yamaguchi Kaori”, in Miyoshi Shūichi, editor, Japan Quarterly, volume XXVIII, Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 556, column 2:
text: The jūdōka evaluated the push-ups and brought them in congruence with his personal values and needs.
ref: 2011, Menno Deen, Ben A. M. Shouten, “Games that Motivate to Learn: Design Serious Games by Identified Regulations”, in Patrick Felicia, editor, Handbook of Research on Improving Learning and Motivation through Educational Games: Multidisciplinary Approaches (Advances in Game-Based Learning), volume I, Hershey, Pa.: Informational Science Reference, →ISBN, section 3 […], page 332, column 1:
text: The state of mindful emptiness can be shared intersubjectively, as when teammates operate in harmonious synchrony or opponents become one action, as Fukasawa illustrates with the jūdōkas in the previous essay.
ref: 2016, Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza, “Everything Mysterious Under the Moon—Social Practices and Situated Holism”, in Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza, editor, Holism and the Cultivation of Excellence in Sports and Performance: Skillful Striving (Ethics and Sport), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, section IV […]:
text: Japanese jūdō opened itself up to greater gender equality in the late 1960s and 1970s, due in great part to the pressure exerted by Western female jūdōka from the late 1960s but also due to a more pragmatic approach to international competitions by the Japanese after the shameful defeat against Anton Geesink in the Tokyo Olympics of 1964 (Saeki 1994).
ref: 2019, Raúl Sánchez García, “Reformulation, expansion, and hybridisation of Japanese martial arts”, in The Historical Sociology of Japanese Martial Arts (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part III (Martial artists):
glosses: Alternative form of judoka.
Galapagos penguin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Galapagos penguins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Galápagos penguin.
Galápagos penguin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Galápagos penguins
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps the most surprising of all is the 35 centimetre (14 inch) tall Galápagos penguin.
ref: 1991, Martha Holmes, Sea Trek, BBC Books, page 29:
glosses: A species of penguin, Spheniscus mendiculus, which lives on the Galápagos Islands.
purs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pur
purs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pur
globulins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of globulin
grimlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of grimly: more grimly
grimliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of grimly: most grimly
risibles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪzɪbəlz/
Etymology: Plural of risible
Senses: examples: text: It is truly melancholy to see so many minds employed in catering for the risibles and lachrymals of weak men and silly women
ref: 1843, “Habits of Reading”, in The Mother's Magazine:
text: Our General was so tickled […] that it was some time before he could get command of his risibles sufficiently to thank Joe for what he had done.
ref: 1866, Richard Miller Devens, The pictorial book of anecdotes and incidents of the War of the Rebellion, page 237:
glosses: The muscles and other organs used in laughing.
Gaussian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡaʊ.si.ən/
Forms: form: more Gaussian
form: most Gaussian
form: Gaußian
Etymology: From Gauss + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The problem of inversion of the mgf/chf of a sum of lognormals to obtain the CDF/pdf is considered with special reference to methods related to Post Widder technique, Gaussian quadrature and the Fourier series method.
ref: 2016, N B Chakrabarti, “A Note on a Sum of Lognormals”, in arXiv:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to Carl Friedrich Gauss.
examples: text: The criterion for positivity was determined for each antigen of each species applying a mixture model to the PP data which assumed two inherent Gaussian distributions: a narrow distribution or seronegatives, and a broader distribution of seropositives.
ref: 2015 September 11, “Hotspots of Malaria Transmission in the Peruvian Amazon: Rapid Assessment through a Parasitological and Serological Survey”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Normal.
Derived terms: Gaussian beam
Gaussian curvature
Gaussian curve
Gaussian distribution
Gaussian elimination
Gaussian function
Gaussian integer
Gaussianity
Gaussianization
Gaussianize
Gaussian moat
Gaussian prime
Related terms: Bayesian
Laplacean
Laplacian
Gaussian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡaʊ.si.ən/
Forms: form: Gaussians
form: Gaußian
Etymology: From Gauss + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: These conditions provide a framework which encompasses some notable approximation kernels including splines, so-called cardinal functions, and many radial basis functions such as the Gaussians and general multiquadrics.
ref: 2016, Keaton Hamm, Jeff Ledford, “Regular Families of Kernels for Nonlinear Approximation”, in arXiv:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Clipping of Gaussian function.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: The normal distribution.
gigabit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪɡəbɪt/
ipa: /ˈɡɪɡəbɪt/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪɡəbɪt/
Forms: form: gigabits
form: Gbit
Etymology: From giga- + bit.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: One billion (10⁹, or 1,000,000,000) bits or 1,000 megabits.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a gibibit.
Synonyms: Gbit
Coordinate terms: sense: Previous
word: megabit
sense: Next
word: terabit
Derived terms: gigabit city
multigigabit
subgigabit
Related terms: gibibyte
gigabyte
gyroscopically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From gyroscopic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Using a gyroscope.
pures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pure
pures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pure
ennemie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ennemies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of enemy.
ennemies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ennemie
immenseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immensenesses
Etymology: From immense + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being immense.
inconnues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inconnue
profondes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of profonde
souverains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of souverain
sourds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sourd
soupçons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soupcons
Senses: glosses: plural of soupçon
sourde
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sourd.
distraite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more distraite
form: most distraite
Etymology: From French distraite, feminine form of distrait. Compare blonde.
Senses: examples: text: I never saw Mrs. Frere to less advantage. Silent, distraite, and sad.
ref: 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, IV.1:
glosses: Alternative form of distrait.
raw_tags: of a woman
waters down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of water down
watering down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of water down
Vepses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See Veps.
Senses: glosses: The Veps people.
unmissable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmissable
form: most unmissable
Etymology: From un- + missable.
Senses: glosses: Not to be missed; thoroughly worth seeing or experiencing.
examples: text: In Kenwyne Jones and John Carew, the big Norway international on loan from Aston Villa, Pennant enjoyed the benefit of a pair of almost unmissable targets, and the former Liverpool man's cultured delivery from the right flank frequently made life uncomfortable for Ben Foster in the Birmingham goal.
ref: 2011 February 12, Les Roopanarine, “Birmingham 1 - 0 Stoke”, in BBC:
glosses: Impossible to miss.
unripened cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unripened cheeses
Senses: synonyms: fresh cheese
glosses: Any of various types of cheese that are not aged.
Related terms: affinage
close one's eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: closes one's eyes
form: closing one's eyes
form: closed one's eyes
form: closed one's eyes
Senses: examples: text: Jim put his headphones over his ears and closed his eyes.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see close, one's, eyes.
glosses: To ignore something.
examples: text: I wanna close my eyes, why don't you drive for a bit?
glosses: To sleep.
Derived terms: close one's eyes and think of England
close one's eyes for the last time
unvoluntarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unvoluntarily
form: most unvoluntarily
Etymology: From un- + voluntarily.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of involuntarily: not voluntarily, forcedly.
unorthodoxly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unorthodoxly
form: most unorthodoxly
Etymology: From unorthodox + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unorthodox manner, unconventionally.
upcurved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more upcurved
form: most upcurved
Etymology: From up- + curved.
Senses: glosses: Curving upwards.
unwomanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwomanly
form: most unwomanly
Etymology: From un- + womanly.
Senses: examples: text: She had been told that she would feel very unwomanly, very unlike herself, for a while.
ref: 2022, Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies, Picador, page 147:
glosses: Not womanly; unfeminine.
unwomanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unwomanly
form: most unwomanly
Etymology: From un- + womanly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner unbecoming a woman.
womanlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of womanly: more womanly
womanliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of womanly: most womanly
violaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more violaceous
form: most violaceous
Etymology: From Latin violāceus (“violet-coloured”).
Senses: examples: text: These were power heels, and they were worn by women from all over the world. […] They were amaranthine and violaceous and subtly velvet.
ref: 2019 March 20, Summer Brennan, The Guardian:
glosses: Violet-colored.
Derived terms: violaceous euphonia
verruculose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more verruculose
form: most verruculose
Senses: topics: biology
botany
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having small growths.
Related terms: verrucose
verrucose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more verrucose
form: most verrucose
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin verrūcōsus, from Latin verrūca (“wart”). By surface analysis, verruca + -ose. Doublet of verrucous.
Senses: glosses: Covered in warts; warty
Derived terms: verrucosity
Related terms: verruca
verrucous
verruculose
unlabelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unlabeled
Etymology: From un- + labelled.
Senses: glosses: Not labelled; having no label.
unpronounced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pronounced.
Senses: examples: text: The letter p in the word "pterodactyl" is unpronounced.
glosses: That is not pronounced.
virgin oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virgin oils
Senses: glosses: Synonym of virgin olive oil.
synonyms: word: virgin olive oil
examples: text: sunflower virgin oil
glosses: Any cold-pressed vegetable oil intended for human consumption that meets specific quality criteria.
unjudged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + judged.
Senses: examples: text: Things that were implicit and largely unjudged in the book, filtered through layers of stiff-upper-lip irony — Fanny’s self-pity, Linda’s obliviousness — are now foregrounded and, for the most part, rendered banal, with “Beaches”-level platitudes and sentimentality.
ref: 2021 July 29, Mike Hale, “Review: ‘The Pursuit of Love’ Against All Odds”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Not judged.
unjudged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unjudge
untraversable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untraversable
form: most untraversable
Etymology: From un- + traversable.
Senses: synonyms: nontraversable
glosses: That cannot be traversed.
Related terms: untraversability
facepiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: facepieces
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of face piece.
ferricyanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or derived from a ferricyanide
Derived terms: ferricyanic acid
Related terms: ferrocyanic
ferrocyanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or derived from a ferrocyanide
Derived terms: ferrocyanate
ferrocyanic acid
hydroferrocyanic
Related terms: ferricyanic
shield volcano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shield volcanoes
form: shield volcanos
Senses: examples: text: Large shield volcanoes of the Hawaiian type (Macdonald, 1972) are more complex, longer lived, polygenetic centres whose life spans may be measurable in terms of hundreds of thousands of years to a millions years.
ref: 1989, R. W. Johnson, editor, Intraplate Volcanism, Cambridge University Press, page 61:
text: 2015, Edward Keller, Duane DeVecchio, Natural Hazards, Pearson Education, 4th Edition, page 136,
Shield volcanoes are constructed from basaltic lavas and in profile appear as broad arcs with gentle slopes (Figure 5.10).
text: 2019, Peter Macinnis, Australian Backyard Earth Scientist, National Library Australia (NLA Publishing), page 41,
Shield volcanoes can be tens of kilometres from side to side, though the shield volcano called Rangitoto, just off Auckland, is a lot smaller. Each island of Hawaii was once an active shield volcano.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
volcanology
synonyms: lava dome
coordinate_terms: stratovolcano
glosses: A large volcano, with shallow-sloping sides and a flattened dome, formed of successive eruptions of free-flowing lava from fissure vents.
wikipedia: Skjaldbreiður
ferrocenium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːniəm
Forms: form: ferroceniums
Etymology: From ferrocene + -ium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent cation [Fe(C₅H₅)₂]⁺ obtained by the oxidation of ferrocene
MALDI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: MALDI is a method of sample injection in mass spectrometry.
glosses: Initialism of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization.
Derived terms: MALDI-TOF
Related terms: MS
PXRD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of powder X-ray diffraction.
Related terms: XRD
ferrocenyl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Derived from ferrocene
Derived terms: ferrocenylphosphine
hexaferrocenylbenzene
XRF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of X-ray fluorescence.
Related terms: XRD
fluorescence
TGA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of thermogravimetric analysis.
Related terms: DTA
DSC
DMS
TMA
XPS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Dell has announced that the new XPS 13 and XPS 13 2-in-1 will be its first to feature 11th-Gen Intel CPUs and meet the Evo certification.
ref: 2020 September 2, Jacob Krol, “Here’s your guide to Intel’s 11th-Gen CPUs”, in CNN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Extreme Performance System, a line of gaming and performance computers manufactured by Dell.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of XML Paper Specification.
Derived terms: sense: XML Paper Specification
word: OpenXPS
XPS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: XPSs
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: Initialism of extruded polystyrene (“plastic foam”).
topics: communication
communications
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of transmit packet steering, a scaling technique for network traffic processing.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of X-ray photoelectron spectroscope.
Synonyms: topics: physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: ESCA
Related terms: sense: plastic foam
word: EPS
sense: plastic foam
word: PS
ferromanganese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferromanganeses
Etymology: From ferro- + manganese.
Senses: glosses: An alloy, of iron and manganese, used in the manufacture of steel
Related terms: ferromanganous
flamelessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From flameless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without flames.
flameless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flame + -less.
Senses: examples: text: 1892, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Phase the Fourth, Chapter 34,
A steady glare from the now flameless embers painted the sides and back of the fireplace with its colour […]
text: Mr Shrivell pulled one of [the exercise-books] out of the fire and, holding it by a flameless corner, waved it for a moment before the clock.
ref: 1950, Mervyn Peake, chapter 11, in Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:
glosses: That does not emit flames.
Derived terms: flamelessly
flamelessness
ESCA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis.
Synonyms: XPS
flanged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flange + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having one or more flanges.
Derived terms: flanged T rail
unflanged
fluorided
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fluoride + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Treated with fluoride
Related terms: fluoridated
unmanliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unmanlinesses
Etymology: From unmanly + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Reproaching me as bastard, captive-born,
Who, in my coward, base unmanliness
Abandoned thee, Ο Aias, […]
ref: 1878, Edward Hayes Plumptre, transl., Aias, lines 1015–1017:
glosses: The property of being unmanly; sissiness.
Related terms: manliness
manly
unmanly
sissiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sissy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being sissy.
CAN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Abbreviation
Senses: topics: automotive
business
computing
engineering
manufacturing
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
transport
vehicles
glosses: Abbreviation of Controller Area Network, ISO standards 11898, 11898-1, 11898-2, and its predecessor standards.
CAN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CANs
Etymology: Abbreviation
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: ceric ammonium nitrate
topics: automotive
business
computing
engineering
manufacturing
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
transport
vehicles
glosses: Abbreviation of controller area network.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of campus area network.
glosses: Acronym of community action network.
glosses: Initialism of consistent and asymptotically normal, a statistic estimator Tₙ(X₁, X₂, ..., Xₙ) is CAN (consistent and asymptotically normal) if ....
glosses: Acronym of court attendance notice.
CAN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish CAN.
Senses: glosses: The Andean Community of Nations.
Can.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: related: word: Can
glosses: Abbreviation of Canada.
Can.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
antonyms: Dec.
glosses: Abbreviation of cantoris.
fretum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freta
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin fretum (“strait, channel”). Doublet of fret (“strait; channel”).
Senses: synonyms: fret
glosses: A strait; a channel.
velutinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more velutinous
form: most velutinous
Senses: glosses: Having a layer of soft short hairs, like velvet.
universal veil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: universal veils
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A thin layer of tissue which completely surrounds a developing mushroom.
mineralised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mineralise
unicolorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unicolourous
Etymology: From unicolor + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Having a single color.
Synonyms: monochromatic
type species
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: type species
Senses: examples: The type species [of genus Esox] is E. lucius, the northern pike. The species of this genus are known as the pike. (Wikipedia article on Esox)
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A species which has been designated as typical of a genus, and is chosen as the species according to which the genus is named.
Synonyms: word: generitype
word: generic type
word: genotype
Coordinate terms: type genus
type collection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: type collections
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A collection from which the original concept of a taxonomic group was described.
Slavicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈslɑːvɪsɪst/
Forms: form: Slavicists
Etymology: Slavic + -ist
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Slavist.
Related terms: philologist
Altaicist
Americanist
Arabist
Australianist
Balticist
Baltologist
Esperantist
Finno-Ugricist
Germanicist
Hebraist
Indo-Europeanist
Klingonist
Lojbanist
Tocharianist
Tocharologist
Turkologist
Ugricist
Uralicist
pay the freight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pays the freight
form: paying the freight
form: paid the freight
form: paid the freight
Senses: glosses: To pay for the cost of transport.
examples: text: I don't want to pay the freight on the kind of conspicuous consumption that thrives on Mercedes or Jaguars.
ref: 1990, J. A. Jance, Minor in Possession, page 168:
text: Stores that were large enough to pay the freight hired their own in-house detectives and security, but lots of companies were far too small to handle that kind of expense on a full-time basis.
ref: 1997, J. A. Jance, Name Withheld, page 58:
text: McColl was the lawyer of choice for those who could pay the freight.
ref: 2000, G. M. Ford, Last Ditch, page 62:
glosses: To bear the cost.
millilitres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millilitre
milliliters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milliliter
millimetres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millimetre
millinewton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millinewtons
Etymology: From milli- + newton.
Senses: examples: Holonyms: newton < kilonewton < meganewton < giganewton < teranewton < petanewton < exanewton < zettanewton < yottanewton
Meronyms: piconewton < nanonewton < micronewton
related: word: mul:mN
glosses: One-thousandth of a newton.
millisiemens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millisiemens
Etymology: From milli- + siemens.
Senses: glosses: One-thousandth of a siemens. Symbol mS.
Sanskritist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sanskritists
form: Sanscritist
form: sanskritist
Etymology: From Sanskrit + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who studies Sanskrit.
sanskritists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sanskritist
Indoeuropeanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Indoeuropeanists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Indo-Europeanist.
organising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: organizing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of organise
organising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organisings
form: organizing
Senses: glosses: The act or process by which something is organised.
overclocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overclock
overclocking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overclockings
Senses: antonyms: underclocking
glosses: An instance or incident of processor (CPU), or any electronic logic device, running at a speed higher than is recommended by the manufacturer.
overclocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overclock
overclocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overclock
overclocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overclock
over-clock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: over-clocks
form: over-clocking
form: over-clocked
form: over-clocked
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of overclock.
Narayana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Narayan
Etymology: From Sanskrit नारायण (nārāyaṇá).
Senses: glosses: Vishnu.
glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Rigveda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Rigveda
form: Rig Veda
form: Ṛgveda
form: Rgveda
form: Ṛg Veda
form: Rg Veda
form: Rug Veda
form: RV.
Etymology: From Sanskrit ऋग्वेद (ṛg-vedá, “veda of praise”), from ऋच् (ṛ́c, “praise, verse”) and वेद (véda, “knowledge”).
Senses: glosses: An ancient Indian Veda and sacred collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns dedicated to the gods (devas), composed between 1700–1100 B.C.E.
Atharvaveda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Atharva Veda
form: Atharvana Veda
Etymology: From Sanskrit अथर्ववेद (atharva-véda), from अथर्वन् (átharvan, “a type of priest”) and वेद (veda, “knowledge”).
Senses: glosses: A sacred text of Hinduism, and one of the four Vedas, often called the "fourth Veda".
Agni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit अग्नि (agní, “fire”).
Senses: glosses: A Hindu and Vedic deity of fire.
Derived terms: Agnean
guac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡwɑːk/
ipa: /ɡwæk/
Senses: examples: text: “Ooh, are you filling those?” Eddie nodded to the pretzel bowls in my hand. “'Cause we're almost out of chips and guac here, too.”
ref: 2011, Elise Allen, Populazzi, Harcourt, published 2011, →ISBN, page 347:
text: The key to making good guac (as it's often called in Texas) is the proper balance of acidity, salt and spice.
ref: 2012, Jon Bonnell, Jon Bonnell's Texas Favorites, Gibbs Smith, published 2012, →ISBN, page 22:
text: You can extend the life of your guac by transferring leftovers to an airtight container.
ref: 2012, Brian L. Patton, The Sexy Vegan Cookbook: Extraordinary Food from an Ordinary Dude, New World Library, published 2012, →ISBN, page 183:
text: Said differently, your guac and your avocado toast could skyrocket if 25% tariffs are levied on Mexico.
ref: 2024 November 26, Elisabeth Buchwald, “What could get more expensive if Trump launches a new trade war with Mexico and Canada”, in CNN:
glosses: Clipping of guacamole.
glosses: Money.
-yne
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Contracted from the suffix -ylene of acetylene
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An unsaturated hydrocarbon having at least one triple bond; an alkyne.
glosses: A polymer derived from an alkyne.
Related terms: -ane
-ene
tiger team
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiger teams
Senses: glosses: A specialized group tasked with testing the effectiveness of an organization's ability to protect assets by attempting to circumvent, defeat or otherwise thwart that organization's internal and external security.
examples: text: My deputy Alex Wong is pulling together a tiger team at deputies/agency Chief of Staff level following up from the meeting in the Sit Room this morning for action items and will be sending that out later this evening.
ref: 2025 March 24, Jeffrey Goldberg, quoting Michael Waltz, “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 25 Mar 2025:
glosses: An engineering or other group assembled to tackle especially difficult or critical problems, often outside the normal chain of command.
dimethylpropane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of neopentane.
synonyms: word: neopentane
2-methylbutane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The organic compound isopentane.
rainwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rain + -wear.
Senses: examples: text: For the entertainment and instruction of visitors there are fashion parades at which seven mannequins will show off the latest fashions in C.W.S. dresses, rainwear and slumberwear. The high spot will be a beautiful bridal scene.
ref: 1950, The Co-operative Productive Review, volumes 25-26, page 286:
glosses: Clothing worn as protection from rain.
raingear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rain + gear.
Senses: examples: text: Exhilarated by her own cruelty, she stared at Robin’s Gore-Tex raingear until Robin was provoked to ask why. Denise said, “I’m just wondering if you’re ever tempted to be slightly less uncool.”
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: Clothing worn as protection from rain.
glosses: Equipment for use in the rain.
making up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of make up
monogyny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /məˈnɒd͡ʒɪnɪ/
Forms: form: monogynies
Etymology: From mono- + -gyny.
Senses: glosses: The practice of having one wife at a time.
glosses: The condition in ants of having only one queen at a time.
Related terms: monogynist
monoandry
polyandry
monoandry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + -andry.
Senses: glosses: The practice of having only one husband at a time.
Synonyms: monogamy
Related terms: monogyny
polygyny
mountain gorilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountain gorillas
Senses: glosses: A subspecies of the eastern gorilla, Gorilla beringei beringei.
eastern gorilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eastern gorillas
Senses: glosses: Gorilla beringei, one of the two extant gorilla species, originally considered to be a subspecies.
Related terms: eastern lowland gorilla
mountain gorilla
western gorilla
uncursed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + cursed.
Senses: glosses: Not cursed.
uncursed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From uncurse + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncurse
second thoughts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second thought
Senses: examples: text: On second thoughts I don't think I will.
text: I'm having second thoughts about this party.
text: I phoned her with second thoughts about our relationship.
glosses: The process of raising doubt or coming to a different conclusion through further consideration; the doubts or new conclusion resulting from this process.
Related terms: have second thoughts
on second thought
second-guess
parotitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the parotid gland, or to parotitis (mumps).
harp seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɑɹp.siːl/
/ˈhɑːp.siːl/
Forms: form: harp seals
Etymology: From harp + seal. So called because it has black harp- or wishbone-shaped markings on its back.
Senses: glosses: One of species Pagophilus groenlandicus, a true seal (or earless seal) found in the northernmost Atlantic Ocean and adjacent parts of the Arctic Ocean.
Synonyms: sense: Pagophilus groenlandicus
word: saddleback seal
sense: Pagophilus groenlandicus
word: Phoca groenlandica
Hypernyms: animal
cordate
earless seal
mammal
marine mammal
Pagophilus
Phocidae
pinniped
quadruped
seal
true seal
Hyponyms: bedlamer
harp seals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harp seal
marsh warbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marsh warblers
Senses: glosses: A small passerine bird, Acrocephalus palustris, family Acrocephalidae, of Europe and Africa.
maritime archeology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of maritime archaeology.
maritime archaeology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maritime archeology
Senses: glosses: A branch of archaeology that specializes in seas, lakes, and rivers.
Synonyms: marine archaeology
Mexican wolf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mexican wolves
Senses: glosses: A rare subspecies of grey wolf, Canis lupus baileyi
Synonyms: Mexican gray wolf
monk vulture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monk vultures
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Eurasian black vulture.
synonyms: word: Eurasian black vulture
Eurasian black vulture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eurasian black vultures
Senses: glosses: Aegypius monachus, a species of large vulture living in Europe and Asia.
Synonyms: sense: Aegypius monachus
word: black vulture
sense: Aegypius monachus
word: cinereous vulture
sense: Aegypius monachus
word: monk vulture
painty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: paintier
form: paintiest
Etymology: From paint + -y.
Senses: glosses: Covered or smeared with paint.
glosses: Having too much paint.
raw_tags: of a painting
Derived terms: paintiness
head line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head lines
Senses: qualifier: palmistry
glosses: A line on the palm of the hand from between the thumb and index finger moving across the palm. Supposed to indicate, by its form or position, one's mentality.
Related terms: palmistry
heart line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heart lines
form: heartline
Senses: qualifier: palmistry
glosses: A line on the palm of the hand from below the index finger to below the pinky, supposed to indicate, by its form or position, one's love life.
Related terms: palmistry
palm reading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palm readings
Senses: glosses: palmistry
sloth bear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sloth bears
Senses: examples: text: More people in India are killed by sloth bears than by tigers.
ref: 2002, Andrew M. McDearmid, Heart of a Hunter: Big Game Hunting, page 145:
text: As in other species of wild bears, sloth bears are most likely to die young, especially during the first few months after they have left their mothers.
ref: 2002, Bernard Stonehouse, A Visual Introduction to Bears, page 31:
text: Sloth bear attacks are in no way a thing of the past. In recent years, Sri Lankan wildlife expert Shyamala Ratnayeke has surveyed close to three hundred of her countrymen who have encountered and, in some cases, been injured by sloth bears.
ref: 2007, Bernd Brunner, Bears: A Brief History, page 134:
glosses: A nocturnal bear, Melursus ursinus, native to South Asia.
Synonyms: sense: Melursus ursinus
word: lip bear
sense: Melursus ursinus
alt: misclassification
word: ursiform sloth
giant forest hog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giant forest hogs
Senses: glosses: Hylochoerus meinertzhageni, a large pig living in the jungles of West and Central Africa.
Methone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Methōnē, from Ancient Greek Μεθώνη (Methṓnē). Doublet of Methoni and Modon.
Senses: glosses: An ancient city near present-day Methoni in Peloponnese, Greece.
glosses: An ancient city-state near present-day Methoni in Central Macedonia, Greece.
glosses: An ancient city-state near present-day Ano Lechonia in Thessaly, Greece.
glosses: Former name of Methana: a city in Attica, Greece.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One of the Alkyonides.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A small satellite of Saturn.
minimalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more minimalistic
form: most minimalistic
Etymology: From minimal + -istic.
Senses: synonyms: minimalist
glosses: Exhibiting or relating to minimalism.
elephantfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elephantfish
form: elephantfishes
Etymology: From elephant + fish.
Senses: glosses: A fish of the family Mormyridae, noted for its ability to generate electric fields.
glosses: A plownose chimaera, any fish in the not closely related genus Callorhinchus of cartilaginous fish, which uses its fleshy snout to feel for food in sediments and to sense electric fields.
Mother Earth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: We had not gone thirty paces from the shaft when far down in the depths my iron dart shot into the nerve ganglion of old Mother Earth and the great moment had arrived.
ref: 1928 February 25 – March 3, Arthur Conan Doyle, “When the World Screamed”, in The Professor Challenger Stories […], London: John Murray, […], published [1952], →OCLC, page 574:
glosses: The personification of the Earth, (chiefly) conceived as a fertile, nurturing, and loving mother.
examples: text: [P]igs and sows by their exceeding fruitfulness would in their hour of sacrifice remind old mother Earth of what was expected from her!
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 73:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: The goddess of the earth in various cultures.
Synonyms: sense: personification
word: Earth
sense: personification
word: Gaia
sense: personification
word: Gaea
sense: personification
word: Terra
sense: goddess of the earth
word: Gaia
sense: goddess of the earth
word: Gaea
sense: goddess of the earth
word: Ge
sense: goddess of the earth
word: Rhea
sense: goddess of the earth
word: Demeter
sense: goddess of the earth
word: Terra
sense: goddess of the earth
word: Tellus
sense: goddess of the earth
alt: neopagan
word: Earth Mother
sense: goddess of the earth
word: Bhumi
Related terms: Mother Nature
Mesopotamian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /mɛsəpəˈteɪmɪən/
Etymology: From Mesopotamia + -an. Compare with French mésopotamien.
Senses: examples: text: Mesopotamian marshlands return to life as they become officially recognised as Iraq’s first national park.
ref: 2013 Autumn, Veronique Mistiaen, “Iraq’s first national park approved” (main, front-page article) in Positive News, issue 77, page 1, sub-headline
glosses: Of or pertaining to Mesopotamia.
Derived terms: Mesopotamian Arabic
North Mesopotamian Arabic
Mesopotamian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɛsəpəˈteɪmɪən/
Forms: form: Mesopotamians
Etymology: From Mesopotamia + -an. Compare with French mésopotamien.
Senses: glosses: A person from Mesopotamia or of Mesopotamian origin.
Related terms: Assyro-Babylonian
ejector seat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ejector seats
Senses: glosses: A seat in a military aircraft which allows the pilot or other crew members to quickly escape in the case of emergency using an explosive charge or rockets; an ejection seat.
Eurydice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʊəˈɹɪdɪsi/
Etymology: From Latin Eurydicē, from Ancient Greek Εὐρυδίκη (Eurudíkē).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A nymph and the wife of Orpheus.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The name of various figures in Greek mythology.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 75 Eurydike, a main belt asteroid.
examples: text: That same week, a twenty-two-year-old comedian named Eurydice Dixon was raped and murdered as she walked home after work.
ref: 2019, Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys:
glosses: A female given name.
exponential equation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exponential equations
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A type of equation which includes a variable located in the exponent; for example, eˣ=1,.
Related terms: exponential growth
polynomial equation
radiculose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more radiculose
form: most radiculose
Etymology: From radicule + -ose.
Senses: examples: text: Look at all the rootlets on this plant! It's absolutely radiculose.
glosses: Producing many rootlets or radicles.
eyesockets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eyesocket
eyesocket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyesockets
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of eye socket.
eye sockets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eye socket
cranial orbit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cranial orbits
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of eye socket.
synonyms: word: eye socket
orbital cavity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orbital cavities
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of eye socket.
synonyms: word: eye socket
exponents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exponent