cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
overengineers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overengineer
overengineering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overengineer
overengineered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overengineer
overengineered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overengineered
form: most overengineered
Senses: glosses: Made more complicated than necessary, often intentionally; as, especially
examples: text: They were ruled out as over-engineered and too expensive for mass production, and lost out to Class 141 and '142' railbuses, and then Class 150s.
ref: 2023 April 5, “£35,000 needed to save a Class 317 and create rebuilt '210' DMU”, in RAIL, number 980, page 8:
glosses: Made more complicated than necessary, often intentionally; as, especially:
Designed for greater strength or other greater capability than is reasonably warranted by the principal purpose of the object, in anticipation of heavier duty or longer duty cycles than the standard use cases would predict.
Related terms: built like a brick shithouse
overbuilt
Rube Goldberg
Heath Robinson
button men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of button man
goles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gole
hymning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hymn
hymning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hymnings
Senses: examples: text: His voice seemed sweeter than the hymnings raised / By brave and gentle souls in Paradise.
ref: 1829, Robert Charles Sands, Princess Papatzin:
glosses: A singing of hymns.
hymned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hymn
hymned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: For whom a hymn is sung (typically at a funeral)
Derived terms: unhymned
prewash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prewashes
Etymology: From pre- + wash.
Senses: glosses: A quick rinse given to objects before they are washed properly.
prewash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prewashes
form: prewashing
form: prewashed
form: prewashed
Etymology: From pre- + wash.
Senses: glosses: To rinse something before washing it properly.
prewashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prewash
prewashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prewash
prewashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prewash
prewashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prewash
lanzones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lanzon
foxhunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foxhunts
Etymology: From fox + hunt.
Senses: examples: text: It had been intended originally to electrify to Ponteland, but opposition from a local foxhunt in those early days of the century caused the proposal to be abandoned, […].
ref: 1956 October, “Recent Changes on the Tyneside Electrified Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 662:
glosses: A hunt for foxes, usually with dogs.
synonyms: bunny hunt
glosses: A hunt for radio transmitters; radiosport.
foxhunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foxhunts
form: foxhunting
form: foxhunted
form: foxhunted
Etymology: From fox + hunt.
Senses: examples: text: He kept a small flock of sheep at Rose Castle, the palace of the bishops of Carlisle, and enjoyed the mild notoriety he accrued through his support for foxhunting in the House of Lords.
ref: 2009 January 30, David Weston, “The Right Rev Ian Harland”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To hunt foxes, usually with dogs.
Related terms: foxhunter
fox hunting
foxhunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foxhunt
foxhunts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of foxhunt
foxhunting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of foxhunt
foxhunted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of foxhunt
matooke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: She wrapped matooke in banana leaves, put the mound into a large pan and the vegetables on top for steaming.
ref: 2020, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, The First Woman, Oneworld Publications, page 61:
glosses: Alternative form of matoke.
indecencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indecency
hatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hatchers
Etymology: From hatch + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I bought some chicks from a commercial hatcher.
glosses: One who hatches, such as a chicken farmer.
examples: text: Incubators must be carefully monitored so that hatchers and nonhatchers may both be further handled promptly.
text: Under these conditions the late-hatching strategy quickly went extinct, usually within 10 years. With no difference in survivorship between hatching early and late, the early hatchers that survive each produce 20 offspring […]
ref: 1989, Bart Thomas De Stasio, Dormancy and egg banks of freshwater zooplankton: structure and dynamics:
synonyms: hatchling
glosses: Something that hatches, such as a bird or the egg from which it hatches.
Related terms: hatchery
hatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hatcher
ethnocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethnocracy
ethnocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ethnocratic
form: most ethnocratic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to ethnocracy, or ethnocrats.
ethnocrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethnocrats
Etymology: From ethno- + -crat.
Senses: glosses: A person involved with the running of an ethnocracy.
ethnocrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethnocrat
desirables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desirable
tailormade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tailor-made.
tailormade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tailormades
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tailor-made.
nucleones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nucleone
paladares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paladar
peones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish peones.
Senses: glosses: plural of peon
pilones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pilon
proximally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more proximally
form: most proximally
Etymology: From proximal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A horticulturalist might know that scarlet pimpernels always close up before rain without having any idea whether it is increasing moisture levels, […] or whatever, that they are proximally responding to.
ref: 2008 April 19, C. S. Jenkins, Daniel Nolan, “Backwards explanation”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 140, number 1, →DOI:
glosses: Immediately; most directly
raw_tags: of causation
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: In the proximal direction: reverse of distally
Related terms: proximal
proximality
poloneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polonese
propidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A divalent organic cation having the chemical formula C₂₇H₃₄N₄²⁺
Derived terms: propidium iodide
Related terms: word: ethidium
word: butidium
urls: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/searchId.do?chebiId=CHEBI:51246
word: Propidium in the CHEBI chemical database
magic points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magic point
radiales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radialis
pretheoretical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + theoretical.
Senses: examples: text: Let’s grant, as seems plausible, that […] knowledge of what it takes to be a T, according to our pretheoretical notion of Ts, has an important role to play in settling metaphysical disputes about the nature of Ts.
ref: 2008 April 23, J. L. Dowell, “Empirical metaphysics: the role of intuitions about possible cases in philosophy”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 140, number 1, →DOI:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Arising before any theoretical considerations
Derived terms: pretheoretically
Related terms: pretheory
preperformance
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + performance.
Senses: examples: text: Next, add core ingredients: elements of live and preperformance video.
ref: 2007 September 27, Alastair Macaulay, “Striking the Pose: Rock Show as Movement”, in New York Times:
glosses: Done or made before or in preparation for a performance.
preperformance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preperformances
Etymology: From pre- + performance.
Senses: examples: text: Three youths were then taught to engage in these behaviors, which included statements of cooperation and reform. Policemen then evaluated preperformances and postperformances of the youths in simulated interactions with a policeman.
ref: 1981, Sidney William Bijou, Roberto Ruíz, Behavior modification: contributions to education, page 222:
glosses: prior performance
premenopausal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + menopausal.
Senses: examples: text: The women were 29 to 46 years old at the beginning of the study in 1993, and 93 percent were premenopausal.
ref: 2007 April 24, Nicholas Bakalar, “Breast Cancer Not Linked to Abortion, Study Says”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having not yet undergone menopause
semises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semis
temblores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of temblor
temporales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌtɛm.pəˈɹeɪˌliz/
Senses: glosses: plural of temporalis
hypergrowth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyper-growth
Etymology: From hyper- + growth.
Senses: examples: text: United States-based online merchants are looking for ways to sustain the hypergrowth they experienced in their early years[…].
ref: 2007 July 30, Bob Tedeschi, “U.S. Merchants Look to the North in Bid to Rejuvenate Slowing Sales”, in New York Times:
text: The jungle-planet Pragia is overrun by choking hypergrowth caused by industrially-mutated plant species.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Pragia:
glosses: Extremely rapid growth
vitamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vitamine
Hafidh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic.
glosses: A title given to Muslims, meaning one who protects the Qur’an.
nuraghe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nʊəˈɹɑːɡeɪ/
Forms: form: nuraghi
form: nuraghes
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian nuraghe, from Sardinian.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A dry-stone round megalithic tower found in Sardinia.
Coordinate terms: talayot
Derived terms: Nuragic
ice axe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice axes
form: ice ax
Senses: meronyms: adze
carabiner
ferrule
leash
pick
spike
glosses: An axe used by mountaineers to cut footholds in the ice.
Related terms: ice pick
ice ax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice axes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ice axe.
anasyrmata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anasyrma
ancientries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ancientry
anconas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ancona
ancone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ancona
anencephalies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anencephaly
oop
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oops.
oop
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ʊp/
[ɤp]
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of up.
Related terms: alley oop
and I oop
ay oop
advertences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of advertence
Seljuk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛld͡ʒuːk/
ipa: /sɛlˈd͡ʒuːk/
Forms: form: Seljuq
form: Saljuq
form: Saljūq
form: Seljouk
form: Seljook
form: Seljuck
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish سلجوق (selcuk), ultimately from Old Anatolian Turkish سلجك (sälcük) attested in the Dede Korkut and Karakhanid سلجك (Selcuk) attested in Mahmud al-Kashgari's Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk, of uncertain etymology. Compare modern Turkish Selçuk.
Pelliot & al. favored derivation via Arabic سَلْجُوق (Saljūq) from Proto-Oghuz [Term?] (*Sälčük), following some accounts taking the name from Proto-Turkic *sāl (“raft”) + *-čük (“-ock, -let: forming diminutives”) from the warlord's supposed birth on a raft on the Syr Darya. There are other early Persian and Arabic transcriptions, however, including سلجوك (Saljūk), سلچوق (Salčūq), and سلجق (Saljuq). Some sources take the original form of the name to have been *Salçuğ or *Salçığ with the meaning "one who fights", "disputes", or "struggles". Some arguing for an original pronunciation of [Term?] (*Selčük) or [Term?] (*Selčuk) would derive it from an early borrowing of Persian سیل (seyl, “flood”) + *-čük (“-ock, -let: forming diminutives”); others from *Sel as an earlier name of the Muztagh Ata in the Eastern Pamirs. Caferoğlu and Gedikli argue for derivation from a modified borrowing of Old Uyghur clean, pure (sil) + Proto-Turkic *-čük.
Senses: examples: text: ...the House of Seljuk...
glosses: Seljuk Bey, the legendary founder of an Oghuz Turk dynasty that ruled an eponymous Sunni Muslim empire in Southwest Asia and numerous successor states, particularly in Anatolia.
glosses: A unisex given name from Turkish.
Derived terms: Seljukian
Seljukid
Seljuk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛld͡ʒuːk/
ipa: /sɛlˈd͡ʒuːk/
Forms: form: Seljuks
form: Seljuq
form: Saljuq
form: Saljūq
form: Seljouk
form: Seljook
form: Seljuck
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish سلجوق (selcuk), ultimately from Old Anatolian Turkish سلجك (sälcük) attested in the Dede Korkut and Karakhanid سلجك (Selcuk) attested in Mahmud al-Kashgari's Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk, of uncertain etymology. Compare modern Turkish Selçuk.
Pelliot & al. favored derivation via Arabic سَلْجُوق (Saljūq) from Proto-Oghuz [Term?] (*Sälčük), following some accounts taking the name from Proto-Turkic *sāl (“raft”) + *-čük (“-ock, -let: forming diminutives”) from the warlord's supposed birth on a raft on the Syr Darya. There are other early Persian and Arabic transcriptions, however, including سلجوك (Saljūk), سلچوق (Salčūq), and سلجق (Saljuq). Some sources take the original form of the name to have been *Salçuğ or *Salçığ with the meaning "one who fights", "disputes", or "struggles". Some arguing for an original pronunciation of [Term?] (*Selčük) or [Term?] (*Selčuk) would derive it from an early borrowing of Persian سیل (seyl, “flood”) + *-čük (“-ock, -let: forming diminutives”); others from *Sel as an earlier name of the Muztagh Ata in the Eastern Pamirs. Caferoğlu and Gedikli argue for derivation from a modified borrowing of Old Uyghur clean, pure (sil) + Proto-Turkic *-čük.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Seljuk dynasty.
examples: text: the Great Seljuks
glosses: A person of the Seljuk empire.
Synonyms: Seljukian
Seljukid
streamliner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: streamliners
Etymology: From streamline + -er (agent noun suffix) or -er (patient suffix).
Senses: examples: text: He turned out to be a brilliant expert on timber and on the lumber business in general, a specialist on soils, and an amazing streamliner of earth-moving work.
ref: 2007, Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich Dobrenko, Political Economy of Socialist Realism, page 116:
glosses: One who or that which streamlines something.
examples: text: […] the three streamliners, still on their 29½ hr. schedule, start at 9.40 a.m., also turn-and-turn-about, and so arranged that the 9.0 and 9.40 a.m. departures are by different routes each day; [...].
ref: 1942 May-June, “Notes and News: War and the American Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 185:
text: Californians brook no argument on the subject: for them the Southern Pacific's Coast Daylight was the world's most beautiful streamliner - a band of red, orange, and black drawn by appropriately styled Lima GS 4-8-4's.
ref: 1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 104:
text: Two westbound freights were in the vicinity and the operator was kept busy passing them radio messages with the latest information on the late running of the streamliners, to allow the enginemen to keep moving until the last possible minute before they had to sidetrack their trains to let the fast trains overtake.
ref: 1961 July, J.Geoffrey Todd, “Impressions of railroading in the United States: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 423:
glosses: Something with a streamlined design, especially railroad locomotives and passenger equipment.
adenosylcobalamin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adenosyl + cobalamin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: cobamamide
cobamamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: One of the components of vitamin B12
aggressivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aggressivities
Etymology: From aggressiv(e) + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: […] to develop the primary elements of intentional personal activity and of objective aggressivity, giving a meaning to every muscular contraction.
ref: 1891, Hobart Amory Hare, Walter Chrystie, editors, A System of Practical Therapeutics, volumes I (General Therapeutic Considerations—Prescription-Writing—Remedial Measures Other Than Drugs—Preventive Medicine—Diathetic Diseases and Diseases of Nutrition), Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea Brothers & Co., page 372:
text: In serial inoculations aggressivity increases until the danger arises that the series will cease from some cause not clearly understood. As the aggressivity increases, there is a decrease in the power of the exudate to block hæmolysis.
ref: 1907, The Philippine Journal of Science, page 357:
text: He does not see that it is the perversion (evasion, denial) of action that is the origin of the aggressivity that he discerns but cannot account for. He never connects his aggressivity with his concept of activity – desire, love, will – which, he knows, is neither masculine nor feminine.
ref: 2001, Brayton Polka, Depth Psychology, Interpretation, and the Bible: An Ontological Essay on Freud, McGill-Queen’s University Press, →ISBN, page 158:
text: Aggression is directly connected with the function of the legs in an adult since our legs move us towards the things we want. If the motility of a person’s legs is decreased, his aggressivity is reduced.
ref: 2005, Alexander Lowen, The Voice of the Body: Selected Public Lectures 1962-1982, Bioenergetics Press, →ISBN, page 308:
synonyms: aggressiveness
glosses: The quality of being aggressive.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The acidic ability of water (when it contains dissolved carbon dioxide) to dissolve calcium carbonate from rocks.
Derived terms: passive-aggressivity
agroecological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From agroecology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to agroecology.
Derived terms: agroecologically
agroecology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agroecologies
Etymology: From agro- + ecology.
Senses: glosses: The agricultural ecology
Related terms: agroecological
agroecologist
akiapolaau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: akiapolaaus
form: 'akiapola'au
Etymology: From Hawaiian [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A Hawaiian honeycreeper, Hemignathus munroi
alignable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From align + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be aligned.
Derived terms: nonalignable
unalignable
amorphization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amorphizations
Senses: glosses: The conversion of a crystalline material into an amorphous one.
amyloidogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amyloidogenic
form: most amyloidogenic
Etymology: From amyloid + -o- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to amyloidogenesis.
Derived terms: amyloidogenicity
antiamyloidogenic
nonamyloidogenic
proamyloidogenic
annelidan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more annelidan
form: most annelidan
Etymology: From annelid + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the annelids.
annelidan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annelidans
Etymology: From annelid + -an.
Senses: glosses: An annelid.
interconsonantally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From interconsonantal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Existing or occurring between consonants.
intervocalically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intervocalic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: It should moreover be noted that there are no clear cases in which an original voiceless stop is first voiced intervocalically and then acquires a preceding nasal, as would have to be assumed to explain Srd. tsing- < *tseng- from It. ceca.
ref: 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 215:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: between vowels
long rangers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of long ranger
Raums
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Raum
long-rangers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of long-ranger
deicing boot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deicing boots
form: deice boot
form: deicer boot
form: de-icing boot
form: deicing-boot
Senses: examples: text: 1976 December 31, Aviation Unit and Aviation Intermediate Maintenance Manual: Army Models U-21A, RU-21A, and RU21D, Change No. 18, US Army, Aviation Unit and Aviation Intermediate Reference Manual TM 55-1510-209-23-1, Volume 1, WAR-5,
An aircraft shall not be flown with a damaged deicing boot.
text: IT'S BEEN MORE than 50 years since B.F. Goodrich installed the first inflatable deicing boots on an airplane (a Northrop mail airplane), and they continue to be the simplest, lowest-cost and lightest way to protect most airplanes from ice accumulated while in flight.[…]Other rubber companies have attempted to enter the deicing-boot business over the years, but only Goodrich has succeeded.
ref: 1985 October, J. Mac Mclellan, “Breaking the Ice: One name still rules”, in Flying, page 10:
text: 2009, K. C. Khurana, Aviation Management: Global Perspectives, Global India Publications, page 51,
Deicing boots were invented by the B.F. Goodrich Corporation in 1923 in Akron, Ohio.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An inflatable rubber membrane attached to aircraft surfaces to permit mechanical deicing in flight.
Seljuks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Seljuk
Rausches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rausch
deicing boots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deicing boot
vṛddhi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈvɹɪ.di/
Forms: form: vṛddhis
form: vrddhi
form: vr̥ddhi
form: vriddhi
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Sanskrit वृद्धि (vṛddhi, “growth, increase”).
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes a vrddhi-derivative was formed from a zero-grade and involved the insertion of the full-grade vowel in the “wrong” place.
ref: 2004, Benjamin Fortson, Indo-European Language and Culture, Blackwell 2004, page 117:
topics: human-sciences
linguistic-morphology
linguistics
morphology
sciences
synonyms: lengthened grade
glosses: The strongest ablaut-grade in a series of vowel alternations in certain Indo-European languages, most notably Sanskrit, as well as in Proto-Indo-European.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A group of long vowels.
Derived terms: vṛddhied
toppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of topper
alexipharmacon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alexipharmacons
form: alexipharmakon
Senses: glosses: An antidote to a poison.
Related terms: alexipharmac
alexipharmacum
alexipharmic
alexipharmical
ethambutol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛˈθam.bjʊ.tɒl/
ipa: /ɛˈθæm.bjəˌtɔl/
Etymology: From eth(ylenedi)am(ine) + but(an)ol.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A synthetic bacteriostatic antimycobacterial drug C₁₀H₂₄N₂O₂ that is a derivative of ethylenediamine, used in the form of its hydrochloride and in combination with other drugs to treat tuberculosis.
mug book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mug books
Senses: glosses: A book containing mug shots, pictures of faces.
Synonyms: facebook
mug books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mug book
mug shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mug shot
animacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of animacy
plectre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plectres
Etymology: Borrowed from French plectre.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of plectrum.
synonyms: word: plectrum
sonoporation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sonoporations
Etymology: From sono- + poration.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The use of ultrasound to modify the permeability of cell plasma membranes.
delectables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delectable
nonfertile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + fertile.
Senses: examples: text: "It is important to stop with the reputation that arid land is nonfertile, useless land," said Professor Appelbaum, who pioneered the concept of desert aquaculture in Israel in the late 1980s. "
ref: 2007 January 2, Dina Kraft, “From Far Beneath the Israeli Desert, Water Sustains a Fertile Enterprise”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not fertile.
psychedelically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more psychedelically
form: most psychedelically
Etymology: From psychedelic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Iraq may be turning into a quagmire and civil war like Vietnam, but the current war has not inspired talk of generationwide rebellion (perhaps because there’s no draft to pit young against old) or any colorful, psychedelically defiant counterculture.
ref: 2007 January 2, Jon Pareles, “Pop Music and the War: The Sound of Resignation”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a psychedelic manner.
cavewoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cavewomen
Etymology: From cave + woman.
Senses: glosses: A female cave dweller
Hypernyms: cave dweller
Coordinate terms: caveman
cheffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From chef + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chef
cheffing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chef + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Due to the ways in which they unsettle typical notions of what the work of cheffing entails and who performs it, their position within the profession is precarious.
ref: 2016, Marcia Texler Segal, Gender and Food: From Production to Consumption and After:
glosses: The activity of a chef.
pâtissier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pâtissiers
Etymology: Borrowed from French pâtissier.
Senses: examples: text: You're turning into a good baker, Bill, but you don't have the interest in piping and presentation to become a pâtissier.
ref: 2022, E. M. Foner, Slow Living, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of patissier.
childminders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of childminder
childminder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: childminders
form: child minder
Etymology: From child + minder.
Senses: glosses: A person employed to look after other people's children while they are away; a babysitter.
Related terms: word: childminding
appliqueing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of applique
appliqued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of applique
eroticization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eroticizations
form: eroticisation
form: erotization
Etymology: From erotic + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: The masculine militarization of culture has led to a feminine eroticization.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 167:
text: A round of applause to Lawrence Downes for pointing out that the premature eroticization of young girls could never happen if their parents woke up and thought about the behavior they’re tolerating — and outright encouraging.
ref: 2007 January 2, “Our Girls Are Growing Up Way Too Fast (3 Letters)”, in New York Times:
glosses: The act or process of eroticizing.
eroticizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eroticization
eroticisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eroticisations
Etymology: From erotic + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of eroticization.
eroticisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eroticisation
coteau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈtoʊ/
Forms: form: coteaus
form: coteaux
form: côteau
Etymology: From French coteau.
Senses: glosses: A hilly upland including the divide between two valleys.
glosses: The side of a valley.
coteaux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French coteaux.
Senses: glosses: plural of coteau
Cyrillisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cyrillisations
Etymology: From Cyrillic + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Cyrillization.
Cyrillisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cyrillisation
appliqués
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appliqué
appliqués
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of appliqué
appliquéing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of appliqué
appliquéed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of appliqué
mediasation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From media + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mediazation.
dreys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of drey
photocalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photocall
photocall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photocalls
form: photo call
form: photo-call
Etymology: From photo + call.
Senses: glosses: A gathering of theatrical performers for the purpose of being photographed.
glosses: A session in which a posed celebrity is photographed.
sidelocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sidelock
sidelock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sidelocks
form: side-lock
Etymology: From side + lock.
Senses: examples: text: observation of the Sabbath (rather than the décadi) and the wearing of Jewish side-locks and beards were regarded as ‘uncivic’ offences.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 558:
text: Its male residents dress like crows: heavy black suits, black Borsalino hats, the old grandfathers hugely whiskered and the boys in peot, the curled sidelocks of the pious.
ref: 2014 December, Paul Salopek, “Blessed. Cursed. Claimed.”, in National Geographic, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2015:
hyponyms: payess
payot
glosses: A lock of hair worn at the side of the head.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The design of a gun that has the lockwork mounted to the inside of a plate; compare boxlock.
Related terms: sideburn
sidecurl
payess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peot.
taskforces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taskforce
snowpeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snowperson
disquietingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disquietingly
form: most disquietingly
Etymology: From disquieting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a disquieting manner.
herby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɜː.bi/
ipa: /ˈ(h)ɝ.bi/
Forms: form: herbier
form: more herby
form: herbiest
form: most herby
Etymology: From herb + -y.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to herbs.
examples: text: Juliet added the whipped cream and marshmallows to Lucas's hot chocolate while I went digging through the boxes for the herbiest of teas.
ref: 2019, Cathy Bramley, The Little Village Café:
glosses: Full of herbal aroma or flavour.
raw_tags: of food or drink
Derived terms: herbily
herbiness
malnourishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mal- + nourish + -ment.
Senses: glosses: malnutrition, undernourishment
monumentalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From monumental + -ism.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A style characterized by massive, monumental buildings
Related terms: monumentalist
paupiette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paupiettes
Etymology: Borrowed from French paupiette.
Senses: glosses: A thin slice of meat or fish wrapped around a stuffing then fried, baked or braised
interiority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interiorities
Etymology: From interior + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being interior.
examples: text: (For a contemporary counterpart consider the perverse geometry and raw interiority of the painter Carroll Dunham.)
ref: 2007 March 30, Andrea K. Scott, “The Way the World Ends, Vividly Imagined”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state or quality of being interior.
The state or quality of being private.
raw_tags: of a person
interpretability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interpretabilities
Etymology: From interpretable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Data collection, of course, has to comply with specific constraints that guarantee the causal interpretability of that data.
ref: 2008 August 1, Michael Baumgartner, “The Causal Chain Problem”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI:
text: MIT researchers are striving to improve the interpretability of features so decision makers will be more comfortable using the outputs of machine-learning models.
ref: 2022 June 30, Adam Zewe, “Building explainability into the components of machine-learning models”, in MIT News:
glosses: The ability to be interpreted.
Derived terms: uninterpretability
indexicality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indexicalities
Etymology: From indexical + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The theories of Kripke ( 1980 ), Soames ( 2003 ), and the proposal of Devitt and Sterelny, among others, take a stand on how the indexicality of natural kind terms is implemented.
ref: 2007 May 31, Jussi Wiljami Jylkkä, “Theories of natural kind term reference and empirical psychology”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 139, number 2, →DOI:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The quality or state of being indexical.
Related terms: indexically
jivey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: jivier
form: jiviest
Etymology: From jive + -y.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of jive music.
examples: text: The plaza also allows for sociability with the downstairs neighbor, Simon (Tony Hale), a jivey video store owner whose obsolete livelihood means that he has time on his hands.
ref: 2007 March 15, Virginia Heffernan, “With a Couch Potato’s Style, Private Eye Works the Mall”, in New York Times:
glosses: bogus
penalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penalisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of penalization.
restaurantland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From restaurant + land.
Senses: glosses: The world of restaurants.
sealife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sea + life.
Senses: glosses: organisms (especially fish) that live in the sea.
washbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: washbags
form: wash bag
Etymology: From wash + bag.
Senses: glosses: A small bag used to hold toiletries and personal washing items
Synonyms: word: toilet bag
word: toiletry bag
word: toiletry kit
word: bathroom bag
word: washkit
word: ditty bag
word: sponge bag
word: dopp kit
word: body hygiene kit
word: toilet article kit
word: travel kit
word: shaving kit
word: wet pack
washbags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of washbag
anomalocaridid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anomalocaridids
Senses: examples: text: In 2009, the amazing description of a single specimen of Schinderhannes bartelsi appeared to extend the history of arthropod-like anomalocaridids by a whopping 100 million years, although the true affinity of Schinderhannes is still contested so it may be an Elvis or Lazarus taxon.
ref: 2017 May 3, Mark Carnall, The Guardian:
text: The second youngest anomalocaridid yet discovered is a bizarre giant from the deeper Ordovician waters of Fezouata in Morocco, called Aegirocassis.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 230:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of a group of large marine animals of the family †Anomalocarididae, known only from fossils.
Hyponyms: sense: Anomalocarididae
word: Lyrarapax unguispinus
anomalocaridids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anomalocaridid
antenniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˈtɛnɪfɔːm/
Forms: form: more antenniform
form: most antenniform
Etymology: From Latin antenna (“pole”) + -form.
Senses: glosses: Having the shape of an antenna
antifade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-fade
Etymology: From anti- + fade.
Senses: glosses: That counteracts fading.
antitermination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + termination.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A mechanism that prevents premature termination of DNA transcription.
Related terms: antiterminator
antivirals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiviral
avifaunas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of avifauna
barleys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barley (varieties)
bracoviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bracovirus
polymerisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polymerisation; alternative spelling of polymerizations.
bracovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bracoviruses
Etymology: From braco(nid) + virus.
Senses: examples: text: The genetic analyses of the bracovirus Cm V support the hypothesis of transmission of polydnaviruses through the wasps' germline, but the mechanism utilized by bracoviruses presently is unclear.
ref: 1993, Jo-Ann G. W. Fleming, Peter J. Krell, “Chapter 9: Polydnavirus Genome Organization”, in Nancy E. Beckage, Stephen A. Thompson, B. A. Federici, editors, Parasites and Pathogens of Insects: Parasites, volume 1, page 213:
text: This paper focuses on the evolution of the bracoviruses. Currently, this group is more promising than the ichnoviruses for evolutionary study because the phylogenetic relationships among the braconid carriers are better understood.[…]Recently, braconids carrying bracoviruses were determined to comprise a monophyletic lineage within the Braconidae (Fig. 1 in Whitfield 1997).
ref: 2000, James B. Whitfield, “Phylogeny of Micrgastroid Braconid Wasps, and What it Tells Us about Polydnavirus Evolution”, in Andrew Austin, Mark Dowton, editors, Hymenoptera: Evolution, Biodiversity and Biological Control, page 97:
text: Based on preliminary fossil data, the appearance of polydnaviruses within microgastrid genera may predate Eocene and Oligocene deposits and has led to the suggestion that the bracoviruses are derived from a single evolutionary lineage that diverged from related groups approximately 60 million years before the present (Whitfield, 1997).
ref: 2012, Bruce A. Webb, “Chapter 5: Polydnavirus Biology, Genome Structure, and Evolution”, in Lois K. Miller, L. Andrew Ball, editors, The Insect Viruses, page 114:
glosses: Any member of the genus Bracovirus, of viruses that are symbiotic with specific braconids.
Hypernyms: sense: virus symbiotic with wasp
word: polydnavirus
Related terms: bracoviral
cDNAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cDNA
apomorphies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apomorphy
corpuscules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corpuscule
corpuscule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corpuscules
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of corpuscle.
crayfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crayfish
crayfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crayfish
germinants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of germinant
kilims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilim
glucosaminoglycans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glucosaminoglycan
netminders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of netminder
wiggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: wiggier
form: wiggiest
Etymology: From wig out, + -y.
Senses: examples: text: SCULLY: All I see are recordings of cable news shows. They're all dated and in chronological order. You know, that's what Patnik was watching at the hospital when he went all wiggy.
ref: 1996, "Wetwired" (episode of The X-Files TV series)
glosses: Crazy.
examples: text: “I thought I was pretty wiggy,” Mr. Baldessari said, “but she was wiggier than I was.”
ref: 2007 January 13, Randy Kennedy, “Art World Luminaries Recall Marcia Tucker”, in New York Times:
glosses: Uninhibited.
wiggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: wiggier
form: wiggiest
Etymology: From wig + -y.
Senses: glosses: Wiglike.
Related terms: piggy wiggy
glucosaminoglycan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡluːˌkoʊzəˌmiːnoʊˈɡlaɪkæn/
Forms: form: glucosaminoglycans
Senses: glosses: Any glycosaminoglycan derived from glucosamine
haematocrits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haematocrit
haematocrit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haematocrits
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of hematocrit.
Derived terms: microhaematocrit
heritabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heritability
horticulturalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horticulturalist
icefishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of icefish
icefishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of icefish
wiglike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wiglike
form: most wiglike
Etymology: From wig + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Unlike the kouros, the figure is completely clothed, although both have the same rigid stance, arms by sides, and wiglike hair.
ref: 2005, Lawrence Cunningham with John Reich, Culture and Values: A Survey of the Humanities, page 43:
glosses: Like a wig.
lithospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithosphere
macrofloras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macroflora
optic disc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: optic discs
form: optic disk
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: blind spot
glosses: The location where ganglion cell axons exit the eye to form the optic nerve.
Related terms: optical disc
mycoplasmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mycoplasma
optic disk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: optic disks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of optic disc.
nuraghi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nuraghe
tostones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tostone
turrones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turron
glosses: plural of turrón
need not
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: need not
form: needed not
Senses: examples: text: My example illustrates how circularity can arise in arguments that appeal to experiment. But the very same example serves to show that this need not be the case.
ref: 2013, Alan Chalmers, What is this thing called Science?, University of Queensland Press, page 36:
glosses: Indicating absence of necessity; do(es) not have to, do(es) not need to.
examples: text: Want ads for what little manual labor there was frequently had the stipulation INNA, an acronym for Italians and Irish Need Not Apply.
ref: 2018 June 1, Gerard Letterie, “Education is the beacon that lights our path forward in America”, in The Seattle Times:
glosses: Indicating inadvisability; ought not to.
Synonyms: not have to
needn't
vistos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of visto
waterdrop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterdrops
form: water drop
Etymology: From water + drop.
Senses: glosses: A single drop of water.
glosses: The dropping of a large amount of water from an aircraft to combat fires.
Related terms: raindrop
waterdrops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterdrop
ediles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of edile
pull someone down a peg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls someone down a peg
form: pulling someone down a peg
form: pulled someone down a peg
form: pulled someone down a peg
Senses: glosses: Synonym of take down a notch.
synonyms: word: take down a notch
take down a peg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes down a peg
form: taking down a peg
form: took down a peg
form: taken down a peg
Senses: glosses: Synonym of take down a notch.
synonyms: word: take down a notch
bone density
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bone densities
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: BMD
bone mineral density
glosses: A measure of the amount of mineral in bones, used to estimate the risk of osteoporosis or fractures owing to bone loss.
mosquito nets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mosquito net
unentitled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + entitled.
Senses: glosses: Not entitled; ineligible.
examples: text: “Nay, Pierre, that is my office; thou art first entitled to my tale, then, if it suit thee, thou shalt make me the unentitled gift of thine. […]”
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
glosses: To which someone is not entitled.
kernelisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kernel + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kernelization.
historiosophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪˌstɔːɹiˈɒsəfi/
ipa: /-ˌstɒɹ.-/
ipa: /hɪˌstɔɹiˈɑsəfi/
Etymology: From historio- + -sophy.
Senses: glosses: The philosophy of history
Derived terms: historiosophic
historiosophical