cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
shitbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shitboxes
Etymology: From shit + box.
Senses: examples: text: My house is a shitbox.
text: Mother and I inhabited a little two-bedroom shitbox out in the Maritimo Brothers development known as “Avondale.”
ref: 2010, Kurt Vonnegut, Deadeye Dick:
glosses: A dump; a run-down, messy or disgusting item.
examples: text: What's funny about the comparison between a 70's car and a 00's shitbox, is that the difference is almost as drastic in the 10 years that have passed.
ref: 2016, Kaleido Motoring, “2002 Kia Spectra: Regular Car Reviews”, in YouTube:
text: It's a Ferrari! It's a shitbox!
ref: 2013, Rush:
synonyms: word: jalopy
word: shitheap
word: banger
word: beater
word: bucket of bolts
word: bucket of rust
word: clunker
word: crate
word: crock
word: flivver
word: hooptie
word: jalopy
word: junker
word: lemon
word: old banger
word: rattletrap
word: rustbucket
word: shed
word: shitbox
word: shitpot
word: shitcan
word: shitbucket
word: tin Lizzie
word: wreck
glosses: An old and decrepit automobile.
examples: text: The rural townies are so backward they make the supporting cast of Deliverance look like Rhodes' scholars (including a Vietnam vet who refers to himself as "a time bomb ready to go off"), and the tourists are represented by a loathsome pack of suburban shitboxes who compare their campsite to On Golden Pond with Peter Fonda (it's a joke, get it?).
ref: 2002, Steven Puchalski, Slimetime: A Guide to Sleazy, Mindless Movies, page 42:
text: "You shitbox!" Ellen roared. "You piece of living shit!"
ref: 2008, Julie Mars, Anybody Any Minute, page 316:
text: Just shy of six months before that shitbox Schaffer burst into his office, the General leaned back in his chair and entwined his meaty fingers behind his head.
ref: 2012, Aaron Overfield, Veil:
text: And you, shitbox, I'm not through with you by any means!
ref: 2016, Pete Hurrey, Dragon Fire!:
glosses: A contemptible person.
shitboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shitbox
ding-dongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ding-dong
noticable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of noticeable.
lapsus linguae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlæpsəs ˈlɪŋɡwiː/
Forms: form: lapsus linguae
form: lapsus linguæ
Etymology: From Latin lāpsus linguae (literally “slip or fault of the tongue”), from lāpsus (“fault”) and linguae (the genitive form of lingua (“tongue”)).
Senses: examples: text: a'''1789, Rev. Mr. Bramston, "The Art of Politics, in Imitation of Horace’s Art of Poetry", Epistle X in John Bell (ed.), Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry, Volume V, John Bell (1789), page 112,
Is there a man on earth so perfect found, / Who ne’er mistook a word in sense or sound ? / Not blund’ring, but persisting is the fault ; / No mortal sin is lapsus linguae thought : / Clerks may mistake ; considering who ’tis from, / I pardon little slips in Cler. Dom. Com.
text: ... a poor woman who owed one thousand piastres—about £30—rushed and seized hold of the coffin, but instead of saying, "God bless the Bey," she, by an unfortunate lapsus linguæ, exclaimed, "God do not bless the King," which slip is quite natural in the Arabic expression.
ref: 1850, Moses Margoliouth, A pilgrimage to the land of my fathers:
text: 1898, Pisistratus Caxton, My Novel, or Varieties in English Life, Volume I, George Routledge & sons, page 395,
“The devil they do, ma’am!” bolted out Richard, gruffly ; and then, ashamed of his lapsus linguæ, screwed up his lips firmly, and glared at the company with an eye of indignant fire.
text: 2006, Daniele Chatelain and George Slusser (trs.), Honoré de Balzac (author), The Centenarian: Or, the Two Beringhelds, Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, page 229,
“As he said this, you can imagine our surprise; we thought the man must be out of his head, or that it was a lapsus linguae: yet the strength of his convictions caused us to persist in our first opinion. […]”
coordinate_terms: lapsus auris
lapsus calami
lapsus digiti
lapsus digitorum
lapsus memoriae
lapsus muris
lapsus oculi
lapsus plumæ
glosses: An inadvertent remark; slip of the tongue.
Related terms: lapsus calami
Freudian slip
inadvertence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: text: Audio (US)
Forms: form: inadvertences
Etymology: From Middle French inadvertance.
Senses: examples: text: Many mistakes proceed from inadvertence.
glosses: The state or quality of being inadvertent; inadvertency; heedlessness; carelessness; negligence.
examples: text: The size is an inadvertence like the tailor's stitches, to allow a style to emerge.
ref: 1990, Gerald Burns, A thing about language, page 64:
glosses: An effect or result of inattention; an oversight or mistake from negligence.
republicans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of republican
untrained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + trained.
Senses: examples: text: Many faults arise through simple jobs being incorrectly done by untrained people; such people must receive and follow precise instructions.
ref: 1963 February, “Diesel locomotive faults and their remedies”, in Modern Railways, page 103:
synonyms: lay
glosses: Lacking training, not having been instructed in something.
Mormonism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mormonisms
Etymology: From Mormon + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Religious, ideological, and cultural aspects of the various denominations of the Latter-day Saint movement.
glosses: A religion that evolved out of Christianity and was founded by prophet Joseph Smith, whose members believe that the Book of Mormon is scripture and worship God.
Related terms: Mormondom
bumpkins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bumpkin
cages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cage
cracked wheat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cracked-wheat
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Wheat grains that have been cut or crushed without further milling.
Derived terms: cracked-wheat bread
somma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒm.ə/
ipa: /ˈsɑ.mə/
rhymes: -ɒmə
Forms: form: sommas
Etymology: Named after Mount Somma, a stratovolcano in southern Italy with a summit caldera in which the upper cone of Mount Vesuvius has grown.
Senses: examples: text: Eventually, a renewed edifice may grow large enough even to bury its somma, or sommas, completely, leaving no clue in its shape to a history of former catastrophe(s).
ref: 2013, John P. Lockwood, Richard W. Hazlett, Volcanoes: Global Perspectives:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A volcanic caldera that has been partially filled by a new central cone.
obeah
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊbɪə/
ipa: /ˈobia/
Forms: form: obeahs
form: obeahing
form: obeahed
form: obeahed
form: obe
form: obea
form: obi
form: obia
form: oby
Etymology: Uncertain; apparently from a Caribbean creole, probably ultimately from a West African language. The Oxford English Dictionary points to Igbo abià (“knowledge, wisdom”), obìa (“doctor, healer”). Cognate of Aukan obiya, Saramaccan obia, and Sranan Tongo obia.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes an egg is boiled hard, and laid in the middle of the road, surrounded by a circle of plantane bark; at others, pieces of hair, cats' teeth, cocks' feathers, and bits of glass, broken amber, and snakes' skins, are placed at the person's door; but oftener buried so as to be concealed from sight. Whoever touches an obeah of this kind, is certain to bring all the mischief intended for the obeahed person, upon his own head; and the consequence is, very few Negroes, if any, venture to remove the charm, or even to come near it. A lock of the obeahed person's hair is almost indispensably necessary, […]
ref: 1829 October 31, “S.” [pseudonym], “Obeah”, in The New Scots Magazine, volume II, number XII, Edinburgh: Published by R. Buchanan, No. 26, George Street [...], published 1830, →OCLC, page 248:
text: [I]f any negro from that time forward should be proved to have accused another of Obeahing him or of telling another that he had been Obeahed, he should forfeit his share of the next present of salt-fish, which I meant soon to distribute among the slaves, and should never receive any favour from me in future; […]
ref: 1834, Mattew Gregory Lewis, Journal of a West India Proprietor, Kept during a Residence in the Island of Jamaica, London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, →OCLC, pages 146–147:
text: A negro takes a dislike to a negro or negroes, either upon the same estate with himself or upon another; he goes to the Obeah woman and tells her that he will give money or something else as payment if she will Obeah such and such persons. The Obeah woman then goes to those people, and tells them she has Obeahed them. Slow poison is at times secretly administered, but in by far the greater number of cases the mind only is affected; the imagination becomes more and more alarmed, the spirits sink, lassitude and loss of appetite ensue, and death ends the drama.
ref: 1903, Charles Augustus Stoddard, quoting Henry Hesketh Bell, Cruising Among the Caribbees: Summer Days in Winter Months, rev. and enl. edition, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, →OCLC, page 88:
text: A poor old woman who thinks she has been Obeahed lies ill in an isolated hut on the short cut to New Castle. I discovered her while out shooting, and promised to send her medical aid. Her case is pressing.
ref: 1906 December – 1907 May, Isabella S. Abel, “The Obeah-man”, in The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women, volume XXV, London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C., published 1907, OCLC 224679211, page 392
glosses: To bewitch using this kind of folk magic.
obedientiary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obedientiaries
Etymology: From Medieval Latin obedientiarius, from Latin Latin oboedientia (“obedience”) + la + -arius.
By surface analysis, from obedient + -i- (“connecting vowel”) + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: Each obedientiary held his own rural estates as well as properties in the city and was supported by various unlanded officials.
ref: 2004, Richard Goddard, Lordship and Medieval Urbanisation: Coventry, 1043-1355, page 95:
glosses: The holder of a monastic rank or office below that of superior.
obelise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: obelises
form: obelising
form: obelised
form: obelised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of obelize.
obelize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: obelizes
form: obelizing
form: obelized
form: obelized
form: obelise
Etymology: From Hellenic Ancient Greek ὀβελίζειν (obelízein), from ὀβελός (obelós, “obelus”).
Senses: examples: text: All modern classicists like to display due caution before coming to a conclusion and will reluctantly obelise any words in a manuscript that resist obvious emendation before deciding that on balance one version is better than another.
ref: 2015, James Davidson, “Laugh as long as you can”, in London Review of Books, volume 37, number 14:
glosses: To mark (a written or printed passage) with an obelus; to judge as spurious or doubtful.
obdt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obdt
form: most obdt
Senses: examples: I remain -- your obdt servant -- Josiah Smith
glosses: Abbreviation of obedient, at one time used in correspondence.
obcordate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obcordate
form: most obcordate
Etymology: From ob- + cordate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a reversed cordate shape; heart-shaped but attached to the stalk by the pointed end.
raw_tags: of a leaf
Derived terms: obcordately
obconical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obconical
form: most obconical
Etymology: From ob- + conical.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of obconic.
obconic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obconic
form: most obconic
Etymology: From ob- + conic.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: of a fruit, conical in shape and attached to the stalk by the pointed end.
glosses: Conical, but having the apex downward; inversely conical.
Synonyms: obconical
obb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obb.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Abbreviation of obbligato.
oat grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oat grasses
form: oatgrass
Senses: glosses: Any of various grasses resembling oats:
Arrhenatherum species
glosses: Any of various grasses resembling oats:
Avenula species
glosses: Any of various grasses resembling oats:
Danthonia californica, California oatgrass
glosses: Any of various grasses resembling oats:
Trisetum species
hop garden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hop gardens
Senses: examples: text: On leaving Wye, we find the country changing character; the Downs come closer to the line, and grazing gives way to orchards and hop-gardens, with pleasant farm buildings, including oasthouses, another characteristic Kentish sight.
ref: 1952 July, A. W. V. Mace, “The Ashford, Canterbury, and Ramsgate Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 436:
text: The line is now well into the Wealden hills. Running along the Teise valley, the slopes of which are covered in hop gardens, it falls at gradients of 1 in 106 and 213 to Goudhurst, 6⅜ miles out, [...].
ref: 1960 March, H. P. White, “The Hawkhurst branch of the Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 172:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A field, fields or farm where hops are grown.
Synonyms: hopyard
Related terms: word: hopping
english: flowers of the hop plant
translation: flowers of the hop plant
word: hops
word: oast
oast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊst/
rhymes: -əʊst
Forms: form: oasts
form: oust
form: ost
form: east
Etymology: From Middle English ost, from Old English āst (“a kiln”), from Proto-Germanic *aistaz (“kiln”), from *aisǭ (“fire”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- (“to burn; fire”). Cognate with Dutch eest (“kiln”), Middle Low German eiste (“kiln”), Latin aedes (“house; hearth”), Old English ād (“fire; funeral pyre”).
Senses: glosses: A kiln for drying tobacco, malt and especially hops.
Derived terms: oast house
Related terms: hop
hop garden
hopping
oast house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oast houses
Etymology: From oast + house.
Senses: examples: text: Sail-like, the oast-house towers of Horsmonden seem almost to plough the rich soil of their Kentish hopfield like graceful yachts on a gently rolling sea. And sail-like, their wind vanes turn the angled cowls with the breeze to create a vacuum inside that draws up hot air to dry the hops on their slatted floor below. This is the Garden of England, and the village is surrounded by orchards and pastures, as well as hopfields - […].
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 227, photo caption:
glosses: A building containing oasts, used in conjunction with hop harvesting.
Related terms: hop
hopping
oast
viral marketing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A famous example of viral marketing is the rapid spread of Hotmail as a free email service. Attached to each email was a short advertisement and Hotmail's URL, and customers spread the word about Hotmail simply by emailing their family and friends.
ref: 2006, Oded Maimon, Lior Rokach, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Handbook, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 424:
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: A technique aiming at reproducing "word of mouth", usually on the Internet or by email, for humorous, political or marketing purposes.
Related terms: meme
vinegarroon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vinegarroons
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of vinegaroon.
vinegared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vinegar + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Most tellingly, the recipe from Causes and Cures prescribes a vinegared wine but the recipe from Physica prescribes vinegar or wine, yet when the explanation of how the medicine works is given, in both passages it has been assumed that the ingredient of the Causes and Cures’ version (vinegared wine) not that of Physica (vinegar or wine) was used.
ref: 2006, Victoria Sweet, Rooted in the Earth, Rooted in the Sky: Hildegard of Bingen and Premodern Medicine, Routledge:
glosses: Seasoned with vinegar.
Derived terms: vinegared rice
rice vinegar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rice vinegars
Senses: glosses: A type of vinegar made from fermented rice or rice wine, used in Chinese, Japanese and Korean cooking.
Derived terms: black rice vinegar
red rice vinegar
seasoned rice vinegar
white rice vinegar
vinegarish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vinegarish
form: most vinegarish
Etymology: From vinegar + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Tasting somewhat like vinegar.
examples: a vinegarish aunt
glosses: acerbic, bitter
Derived terms: vinegarishly
vinegarishness
platform game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platform games
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A video game of the genre characterized by jumping (or otherwise moving) to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles.
Synonyms: platformer
Hyponyms: endless runner
jump'n'run
wine vinegar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wine vinegars
Senses: glosses: Vinegar made from wine.
Derived terms: red wine vinegar
white wine vinegar
Mensan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mensans
Etymology: From Mensa + -an.
Senses: glosses: A member of Mensa, a society for people who have very high IQs.
Mensan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mensan
form: most Mensan
Etymology: From Mensa + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Mensa.
contracture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɹæktjʊə(ɹ)/
ipa: /kənˈtɹæktʃʊə(ɹ)/
ipa: /kənˈtɹæktʃə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æktʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: contractures
Etymology: From French contracture, from Latin contractura.
Senses: examples: text: Even if in the initial phase of acute hand burn injury all treatment measures have been executed properly, postburn deformities still occur and are the most common cause of skin contracture in the hand. Postburn scarring and contractures affect the function as well as the aesthetic appearance of the hand and remain the most frustrating late complication of a hand burn.
ref: 2010, Scott W. Wolfe, William C. Pederson, Robert N. Hotchkiss, Green's Operative Hand Surgery, Sixth Edition, page 2099:
text: In general, the technique resulted in faster healing, less car formation, and less contracture than pinch grafting.
ref: 2022, Lindsey Fitzharris, The Facemaker, page 149:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An abnormal, sometimes permanent, contraction of a muscle or skin; a deformity so caused.
Derived terms: acrocontracture
anticontracture
contractural
contractured
Dupuytren's contracture
hypercontracture
lethal congenital contracture syndrome
republicanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: republicanisms
Etymology: From republican + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The political ideology of being a citizen in a state as a republic under which the people hold popular sovereignty.
Related terms: republican
Republican
paraphilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paraphilic
form: most paraphilic
Etymology: From paraphilia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a paraphilia.
Derived terms: nonparaphilic
paraphilically
paraphilic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraphilics
Etymology: From paraphilia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: One who has a paraphilia.
routinized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of routinize
routinized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more routinized
form: most routinized
Senses: glosses: Carried out as part of a routine
objectified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of objectify
objectified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more objectified
form: most objectified
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: (of people) demeaned
coordinate_terms: marginalized
dehumanized
glosses: Treated as an object.
raw_tags: of people
Derived terms: nonobjectified
unobjectified
Related terms: sexualized
renewable energy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renewable energies
Senses: examples: text: Finally, I have the impression that there’s an element of tough-guy posturing involved — real men don’t use renewable energy, or something.
ref: 2018 November 27, Paul Krugman, “The Depravity of Climate-Change Denial”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, page A22:
glosses: Energy that is collected from renewable resources, such as wind, water, or the sun, usually and especially as applied to a category of electrical generation.
Hypernyms: energy
renewables
Hyponyms: bioenergy
hydroelectric
hydropower
solar energy
solar power
sustainable energy
water power
wind energy
wind power
Related terms: geothermal
solar panels
photovoltaics
sails
waterwheels
windmills
gillie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: gĭlʹē
ipa: /ˈɡɪli/
ipa: /ˈɡɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
Forms: form: gillies
form: gillying
form: gillied
form: gillied
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic gille (“helper”), from Middle Irish gilla (“youth, young man; boy, male child; messenger, page, servant”), possibly borrowed from Old Norse gildr (“brawny, stout; of full worth”). Compare Irish giolla (“boy”).
Senses: examples: text: I had taken bigger fish on the Alta, while fishing as Tony Pulitzer's guest on the Jöraholmen farm, but never under circumstances as bizarre as the day I found myself being ghillied by a girl.
ref: 1994, Jeremy Paxman, Fish, Fishing and the Meaning of Life, London: Michael Joseph, →ISBN:
text: [I]t was distance casting that changed my life. I started by gillying for [William] Taylor, retrieving his line between long casts and laying it out in tangle-free coils on the platform at his side.
ref: 1998, Phil Genova, quoting Joan Salvato Wulff, “Community Programs”, in First Cast: Teaching Kids to Fly-fish, Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 281:
text: Pike they were after. […] They'd sit for hours watching their echo sounder and then when the big bleep would come on it, they'd lower the big baits and wait for the mother of all battles. The first time Frank saw the gear he thought they were going to use depth charges to blow the fish out of the water and he thought this was great crack. Far better than gillying for Northern Irish or Scots who wouldn't give ya a fright. But the Germans were great and every Christmas there'd be a big box of chocolates and clothes from Berlin.
ref: 2000, Declan Varley, chapter 4, in Nightmusic, Ireland: Declan Varley, →ISBN:
glosses: To be a gillie, a fishing or hunting guide, for (someone).
gillie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gĭlʹē
ipa: /ˈɡɪli/
ipa: /ˈɡɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
enpr: jĭlʹē
ipa: /ˈdʒɪli/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒili/
rhymes: -ɪli
enpr: gĭlʹē
ipa: /ˈɡɪli/
ipa: /ˈɡɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
Forms: form: gillies
Etymology: From gill (“drink measure for spirits”) + -ie; probably a nonce word coined by Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759–1796) to maintain the rhyme in a poem entitled On a Scotch Bard Gone to the West Indies, first published in 1786: see the quotation.
Senses: examples: text: Fareweel, my rhyme-compoſing billie! / Your native ſoil was right ill-willie; / But may ye flouriſh like a lily, / Now bonilie! / I'll toaſt ye in my hindmoſt gillie, / Tho' owre the Sea!
ref: 1786 July 31, Robert Burns, “On a Scotch Bard Gone to the West Indies”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire: Printed by John Wilson, →OCLC; reprinted Kilmarnock: James McKie, March 1867, →OCLC, page 184:
glosses: A gill of an alcoholic drink.
cancrinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cancrinites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of feldspathoid minerals that are mixed carbonates and aluminosilicates of sodium and calcium.
Derived terms: hydroxycancrinite
intelligence quotient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intelligence quotients
form: IQ
Etymology: Calque of German Intelligenzquotient. Coined in 1912 by German psychologist William Stern.
Senses: glosses: A score derived from one of several different standardized tests attempting to measure a person's intelligence relative to that of the general population, with the average usually calibrated to a number around 100.
wikipedia: William Stern (psychologist)
Derived terms: artificial intelligence quotient
kosmos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kosmoses
form: kosmoi
Senses: examples: text: It [the earth] was in the centre of the Kosmos; it remained stationary because of its equal distance from all parts of the outer revolving spheres; there was no cause determining it to move upward rather than downward or sideways, therefore it remained still. Its exhalations nourished the fire in the peripheral regions of the Kosmos.
ref: 1865, George Grote, “Speculative Philosophy in Greece, before and in the Time of Sokrates”, in Plato, and the Other Companions of Sokrates. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, pages 6–7:
text: 1874-1875, William Ewart Gladstone, The Church of England and Ritualism
[…] the spirit of Beauty was so profusely poured forth, that it seemed to fill the life and action of man as it fills the kingdoms of nature; the one, like the other, was in its way a Kosmos.
text: An Atom and a Molecule were taking a drive one afternoon in the pænumbra of the Kosmos.
ref: 1884 May 22, “Varieties”, in The Present Age. A Weekly Journal of Civilization., volume III, number 21 (whole 103), Chicago, Ill.: J. Fred Waggoner Company, page 289:
glosses: Archaic form of cosmos.
carbonatite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbonatites
Etymology: From carbonate + -ite.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any intrusive igneous rock having a majority of carbonate minerals
Derived terms: calciocarbonatite
carbonatitic
ferrocarbonatite
magnesiocarbonatite
natrocarbonatite
silicocarbonatite
cardamon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cardamom.
homolactic fermentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any form of fermentation that produces a single acid, but especially the anaerobic conversion of pyruvic acid into lactic acid with concomitant oxidation of NADH to NAD
Related terms: mixed acid fermentation
homolactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- + lactic.
Senses: glosses: Producing only lactic acid
raw_tags: of a fermentation
Derived terms: homolactic fermentation
compound eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compound eyes
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: A visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans. It consists of one to thousands of tiny independent photoreception units.
recruitment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /rɪˈkruːt.mənt /
Forms: form: recruitments
Etymology: From recruit + -ment. French recrutement.
Senses: examples: text: 'The recruitment of 72 new drivers means that we will have the resource to deliver additional services' said the spokesman.
ref: 2019 October, Rhodri Clark, “TfW seeks PRM derogation for Class 37 sets”, in Modern Railways, page 87:
glosses: The process or art of finding candidates for a post in an organization, or recruits for the armed forces.
examples: text: Tebow's and Bradford's production and leadership are undeniable, but their recruitments, offenses and personalities are vastly different.
ref: 2009 January 7, Pete Thamel, “Tebow and Bradford: Different Ways to Reach Summit”, in New York Times:
glosses: A style or process of recruiting.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The addition of new adult or breeding-age individuals (recruits) to a population.
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The full aeration of a lung.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Opening of collapsed lung alveoli by means of controlled increase in transpulmonary pressure using mechanical ventilation. (treatment strategy for ARDS)
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A physical condition of the inner ear that leads to reduced tolerance of loudness, commonly occurring in those with hearing loss due to cochlear damage.
Derived terms: derecruitment
e-recruitment
hyperrecruitment
overrecruitment
underrecruitment
Related terms: recruiter
great big
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Very big; huge.
occurrents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Withal, I shall perchance, seeing I have so good an occasion offered, touch by the way some occurrents of later time.
ref: 1595, Lewes Lewkenor, The Usage of English Fugitives Under The King Of Spain and His Ministers:
text: So tell him, with th' occurrents, more and less,
 Which have solicited– the rest is silence.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
glosses: plural of occurrent; events
Related terms: occurrence
conqueress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conqueresses
Etymology: From Middle English conqueresse, conquiris, conquires, probably from Old French; equivalent to conquer + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: And now by this the noble Conquereſſe / Her ſelfe came in, her glory to partake;
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 36, page 278:
glosses: A female conqueror.
Synonyms: victoress
victress
victrice
victrix
psychoheresy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From psycho- + heresy.
Senses: glosses: The integration of psychotherapy and Christian teaching, held to be unchristian by some.
simplexity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From simplex + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Simplexity, according to Goldsmith, is defined as "synonymous with disorder, or structural simplicity or high entropy.
ref: 1998, R. F. T. Stepto, Rosemarie Szostak, Molecular Sieves: Principles of their formation, structure and properties:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: disorder
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The number of simplexes into which a structure can be divided
glosses: The tendency of a simple system to generate complex forms
glosses: The act of establishing a simple interface for something that is complex.
unchristian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈkɹɪstʃən/
ipa: /ʌnˈkɹɪstɪən/
ipa: /ʌnˈkɹɪst͡ʃən/
rhymes: -ɪstʃən
Forms: form: more unchristian
form: most unchristian
form: un-Christian
Etymology: Alternation (due to Christian) of Middle English uncristen, uncristene, from Old English uncristen (“unchristian”),
equivalent to un- + Christian. Compare West Frisian onkristen, Dutch onkristen (obsolete Dutch onchristen), Danish ukristen, Swedish okristen, Icelandic ókristinn.
Senses: glosses: Not of the Christian faith.
examples: text: I hope I may never again be in a state of mind so unchristian as the mental frame in which I lived for some weeks, respecting the memory of Master B. [His bell rang] two nights out of three, until I conceived the happy idea of twisting Master B.‘s neck […]
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:
text: Arius […] eventually died obscurely, reputedly as the result of an acute attack of dysentery in a latrine in Constantinople, which circumstance afforded his enemies some unchristian pleasure, and was eventually commemorated with exemplary lack of charity in the Orthodox liturgy.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 215:
glosses: Not in accord with Christian principles; without Christian spirit; unbefitting a Christian.
Related terms: unchristianlike
extraterritoriality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛk.stɹəˌtɛ.ɹɪˌtɔː.ɹɪˈæl.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /ˌɛk.stɹəˌtɛ.ɹɪˌtɔ.ɹiˈæl.ɪ.ti/
rhymes: -ælɪti
Forms: form: extraterritorialities
Etymology: From extraterritorial + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Although both home country and host country extraterritoriality involve the extension of national law over foreign corporations, the two differ sharply in the nature of application.
ref: 1993, Phillip I. Blumberg, The Multinational Challenge to Corporation Law: The Search for a New Corporate Personality, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 187:
topics: law
glosses: Immunity from the local laws of a certain area, especially due to diplomatic negotiation.
glosses: A territory or space that is under the power of a certain area but not defined by its norms.
Synonyms: diplomatic immunity
exterritoriality
proxenetism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From proxenet + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The negotiation or facilitation of a transaction between a sex worker and a customer.
Synonyms: word: pandering
word: pimping
word: poncing
english: of women
translation: of women
word: procuration
word: procuring
word: procurement
coöperation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coöperations
Senses: examples: text: "[...] for their encouraging initiative and coöperation."
ref: 1996, Richard Courant, What is Mathematics:
glosses: Dated spelling of cooperation.
Related terms: coöperate
consulship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consulships
Etymology: From consul + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The office of a consul, in its various senses.
glosses: The term of office of a consul.
Synonyms: consulate
consultative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more consultative
form: most consultative
Etymology: From Latin-type *cōnsultātīvus (probably used in Medieval Latin), from cōnsultāt-, past participial stem of cōnsultō, + -īvus. By surface analysis, consult + -ative.
Senses: glosses: That gives advice or consultation; advisory.
Derived terms: consultatively
consultative selling
nonconsultative
consumable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsjuːməbəl/
ipa: /kənˈsuːməbəl/
Forms: form: more consumable
form: most consumable
Etymology: From consume + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Atwood's Edible Woman offers a brilliant analysis of woman as consumable in consumer capitalism: when Marian turns out in a tarty hairdo and red dress...
ref: 1991, Gayle Greene, Changing the Story: Feminist Fiction and the Tradition:
glosses: That is consumed or depleted upon use.
glosses: That may be eaten.
Derived terms: consumably
inconsumable
nonconsumable
consumable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsjuːməbəl/
ipa: /kənˈsuːməbəl/
Forms: form: consumables
Etymology: From consume + -able.
Senses: examples: text: printer consumables such as toner and ink cartridges
text: The drillhead produces the drilling rotation and torque but also must slide out of position to allow the machine to manipulate the finisher drill steel and consumables.
ref: 2006, Department of Mining Engineering, Proceedings: 35th International Conference on Ground Control in Mining, volume 25, West Virginia University, page 162:
text: It is normal for any organization to have two types of expense items, stockable and non-stockable. The stockable expense items – factory consumables etc – are booked into a subinventory and can be accrued on receipt.
ref: 2012, John Priestley, Oracle e-Business Consultancy Handbook, →ISBN, page 138:
glosses: A material or product that is produced for consumption.
containerize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: containerizes
form: containerizing
form: containerized
form: containerized
Etymology: From container + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To transport (cargo) in large, standard containers.
glosses: To modify (a ship or industry) to use such containers.
examples: text: 1. First and foremost, containerize or dockerize the Spring Boot app using a Dockerfile.
ref: 2017, Ajitesh Shukla, Building Web Apps with Spring 5 and Angular, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 115:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To run an application in a software container.
Derived terms: containerizable
containerization
contaminator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contaminators
Etymology: From contaminate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A person who contaminates.
glosses: A thing that contaminates; a contaminant.
Derived terms: cross-contamination
Related terms: contamination
contemporaneity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: contemporaneousness
cotemporality
glosses: The state or characteristic of being contemporaneous.
contentedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: kən-tĕn′tĭd-lē
ipa: /kənˈtɛn.tɪd.liː/
ipa: /kənˈtɛn.tɪd.li/
ipa: /kənˈten.tɪd.liː/
ipa: /kənˈten.təd.liː/
ipa: /konˈʈɛn.ʈɪɖ.liː/
rhymes: -ɛntɪdliː
Forms: form: more contentedly
form: most contentedly
Etymology: From contented + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Some confounded fact we men have been living contentedly with ever since the day of creation would start up and knock the whole thing over.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 202, column 1:
text: “Take my word for it, you’ll settle down with us all right. Give us a trial anyway. . . . . Come in, Mr. Hopkins. . . . This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, pages 84–85:
text: Please tell me something useful by which I may live my life more fully, or more contentedly, or more creatively.
ref: 2001, Conrad P. Pritscher, Quantum Learning: Beyond Duality, Leiden: Rodopi, published 2001, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 11, lines 24–25:
glosses: In a contented manner.
contentiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more contentiously
form: most contentiously
Etymology: From contentious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The etymology of the term Japlish is disputed and contentiously so.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 13:
glosses: In a contentious manner.
contently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more contently
form: most contently
Etymology: From content + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a contented manner; contentedly
conterminously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more conterminously
form: most conterminously
Etymology: From conterminous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a conterminous manner
contextually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more contextually
form: most contextually
Etymology: From contextual + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a contextual manner; with reference to context
contiguously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /kənˈtɪɡjuəsli/
Forms: form: more contiguously
form: most contiguously
Etymology: From contiguous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The most important result of Mr. Mercer's work was the rediscovery of the tunnel, which had been buried, although still accessible through the partly blocked southern portal of the second and larger tunnel, built contiguously to the old one, about 1840.
ref: 1951 May, “Notes and News: The Penydarran Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 350:
glosses: In a contiguous manner.
Derived terms: discontiguously
contingently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more contingently
form: most contingently
Etymology: From contingent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a contingent manner; without foresight
Derived terms: noncontingently
contrapuntally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more contrapuntally
form: most contrapuntally
Etymology: From contrapuntal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a contrapuntal manner
controversially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more controversially
form: most controversially
Etymology: From controversial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: West Brom came from behind to snatch their first league win at Villa Park since 1979 after Aston Villa's Chris Herd was controversially sent off.
ref: 2011 October 22, Sam Sheringham, “Aston Villa 1 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:
text: Chirk station closed to goods traffic in 1964 and became unstaffed in the 1970s, before a final blow was dealt in 1987 when the original station building was controversially demolished by the local council.
ref: 2020 December 30, Paul Stephen, “Chirk station is truly blooming”, in Rail, page 48:
glosses: In a controversial manner.
conversationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -eɪʃənəli
Forms: form: more conversationally
form: most conversationally
Etymology: From conversational + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a conversational manner
convivially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more convivially
form: most convivially
Etymology: From convivial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a convivial manner
convexly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more convexly
form: most convexly
Etymology: From convex + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a convex manner.
coquettishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more coquettishly
form: most coquettishly
Etymology: From coquettish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She reached the abstract, comic art-style mountain, which the Maker had decided to destroy ten times in the past hour without ever quite being able to bring itself to do so. She dramatically increased in scale, and winked coquettishly. A speech balloon appeared above her head.
ref: 2020 October 1, HarryBlank, “The Bowe Decommission, Part One”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 11 Dec 2024:
glosses: In a coquettish manner; flirtatiously.
covetously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more covetously
form: most covetously
Etymology: From covetous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a covetous manner
scallawag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scallawags
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of scalawag.
scallawags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scallawag
seel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːl/
rhymes: -iːl
homophone: seal
Forms: form: more seel
form: most seel
Etymology: From Middle English sel, sele, from Old English *sǣle (“good, fortunate, happy”) (attested in Old English unsǣle (“evil, wicked”)), from Proto-Germanic *sēliz (“good, happy”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *sēl- (“to calm, quiet, be favourable”). Cognate with Danish sæl (“blissful”), Dutch zalig (“blissful”), Gothic 𐍃𐌴𐌻𐍃 (sēls, “good, kind, useful”), Icelandic sæll (“blissful”), Latin sōlor (“to comfort, console”), Swedish säll (“blissful”).
Senses: glosses: Good; fortunate; opportune; happy.
seel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːl/
rhymes: -iːl
homophone: seal
Forms: form: seels
form: seal
Etymology: From Middle English sele, sel, from Old English sǣl (“time, occasion, a fit time, season, opportunity, the definite time at which an event should take place, time as in bad or good times, circumstances, condition, position, happiness, joy, good fortune, good time, prosperity”), from Proto-Germanic *sēliz (“luck, joy”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *sēl- (“to calm, quiet, be favourable”). Cognate with Icelandic sæla (“bliss”), Dutch zalig (“blissful, blessed”). More at silly.
Senses: glosses: Good fortune; happiness; bliss.
examples: text: the seel of the day
glosses: Opportunity; time; season.
Derived terms: barley-seel
hay-seel
seel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːl/
rhymes: -iːl
homophone: seal
Forms: form: seels
form: seeling
form: seeled
form: seeled
Etymology: From Middle English silen, from Old French siller, ciller (“to sew up the eyelids of, hoodwink, wink”), from cil (“eyelid”), from Latin cilium (“eyelid, eyelash”).
Senses: examples: text: Hey who does blindly soar at Rhodalind[…]
Mounts, like seel'd doves, still higher[…]
ref: 1651, William Davenant, Gondibert:
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: To sew together the eyelids of a young hawk.
glosses: To blind.
seel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːl/
rhymes: -iːl
homophone: seal
Forms: form: seels
form: seeling
form: seeled
form: seeled
Etymology: Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *sīgan (“to drop”). Compare Low German sielen (“to lead off water”), French siller (“to run ahead, to make headway”), and English sile (transitive verb).
Senses: examples: text: when a Ship seels or rowls in foul Weather
ref: c. 1611, Walter Raleigh, Observations on the Navy and Sea Service:
glosses: To roll on the waves in a storm.
raw_tags: of a ship
seel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːl/
rhymes: -iːl
homophone: seal
Forms: form: seels
Etymology: Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *sīgan (“to drop”). Compare Low German sielen (“to lead off water”), French siller (“to run ahead, to make headway”), and English sile (transitive verb).
Senses: examples: text: The ship hulls as the billows flow; / And all aboard at ev'ry seel, / Like drunkards, on the hatches reel.
ref: 1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “(please specify the page)”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London: [Andrew Hebb […]], →OCLC:
glosses: The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm.
sego
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: segos
form: sago
Etymology: Borrowed from Ute siγoʔo.
Senses: glosses: A perennial bulb lily found in Western North America (Calochortus nuttallii), which has trumpet-shaped flowers.
soph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sophs
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:soph.
glosses: Clipping of sophomore.
Derived terms: Harry-soph
junior soph
soph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sophs
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:soph.
glosses: Clipping of sophister (“student advanced beyond first year of residence”).
incandescently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ɪnkənˈdɛsəntli/
Forms: form: more incandescently
form: most incandescently
Etymology: From incandescent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Every day was as incandescently hot as the last.
ref: 2022, Paul McAuley, Beyond the Burn Line, Gollancz, page 428:
glosses: In an incandescent manner; using incandescence.
headhunters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headhunter
sudd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sudds
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic سُدّ (sudd, “dam, barrier”).
Senses: glosses: A floating mass of plant matter, such as reeds, which obstructs the passage of boats.
Related terms: floating island