cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
prerogative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈɹɒɡ.ə.tɪv/
ipa: /pɹəˈɹɑɡ.ə.tɪv/
ipa: /pəˈɹɑ.ɡə.tɪv/
Forms: form: more prerogative
form: most prerogative
form: prærogative
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman prerogative (noun), from Latin praerogātīva (“previous verdict; claim, privilege”), noun use of the feminine singular of praerogātīvus (“having first vote; privileged”).
Senses: glosses: Having a hereditary or official right or privilege.
examples: text: Law-eroding prerogative developments cannot only be witnessed in hybrid regimes, but also in democratic states, which resort to reflections and practices of an ‘enemy criminal law’, and in the European Union’s recent crisis politics.
ref: 2020, Jan Christoph Suntrup, “Between prerogative power and legality – reading Ernst Fraenkel’s The Dual State as an analytical tool for present authoritarian rule”, in Jurisprudence, volume 11, number 3, →DOI, pages 335–359:
glosses: Characterized by lawless state actions, as in a prerogative state.
Derived terms: prerogative court
prerogative state
prerogative writ
homocytotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- + cytotropic.
Senses: examples: text: The recent observation that a heat labile human immunoglobulin, IgE , could mediate the release of both histamine and SRS-Aᵐᵒⁿᵏᵉʸ from primate lung slices (Ishizaka et al., 1969), prompted a re-examination of the biologic activity of rat heat labile homocytotropic antibody.
ref: 1969, Robert P. Orange, K. Frank Austen, “Slow Reacting Substance of Anaphylaxis”, in Advances in Immunology - Volume 10, page 144:
glosses: Affecting cells of the species in which it originated.
raw_tags: of an antibody
Related terms: heterocytotropic
heterocytotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From hetero- + cytotropic.
Senses: glosses: Affecting cells of a species other than that in which it originated.
raw_tags: of an antibody
Related terms: homocytotropic
trans fat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trans fats
form: trans-fat
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An unsaturated fat with carbon-carbon double bonds in the trans configuration, especially one prepared by partial hydrogenation, associated with an elevated risk of coronary heart disease.
Related terms: polyunsaturated fat
saturated fat
trans fatty acid
unsaturated fat
tularæmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of tularemia.
-lysis
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λύσις (lúsis, “a loosening”); compare lysis.
Senses: glosses: decomposition or breakdown
glosses: dissolving
glosses: disintegration
Related terms: loose
lyo-
ly-
lysis
-lytic
character assassination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: character assassinations
Senses: examples: text: For months, Dati warned she would refuse to stand aside. Now she has stunned the political class with an open letter to Fillon in Le Monde, a scathing character assassination accusing him of the "lone ambition" of a disillusioned political elite, of doing politics in a way that "never favoured women" and stopping ethnic-minority candidates from progressing at elections. She said he was committing "a sad mistake" in trying to run in Paris.
ref: 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian:
glosses: A malicious discourse designed to damage the reputation of someone.
Synonyms: demonization
demonizing
hit job
smear campaign
swiftboating
vilification
public figure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: public figures
Senses: glosses: A famous person whose life is the subject of public interest.
hospitalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hospitalisations
Senses: examples: text: "I'm encouraged by recent reductions in the national 'R' rate and a drop in COVID-related hospitalisations.
ref: 2021 March 10, “Network News: Grand Central targets March 27 for resumption of trains”, in RAIL, number 926, page 18:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hospitalization.
Derived terms: posthospitalisation
rehospitalisation
Related terms: hospitalise
decreation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decreations
Etymology: From de- + creation.
Senses: glosses: destruction
hospitalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: hospitalizations
form: hospitalisation
Etymology: From hospital + -ization or hospitalize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The hospitalizing of a patient, the condition of being hospitalized, or the period a patient stays in hospital.
glosses: Insurance that pays a patient's expenses.
Derived terms: dehospitalization
hallway hospitalization
posthospitalization
prehospitalization
rehospitalization
Related terms: inpatient
hosannahing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hosannah
hosanna
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hoʊˈzænə/
ipa: /hoʊˈzɑnə/
rhymes: -ænə
Forms: form: hosana
form: hosannah
form: hoshanna
form: hoshiana
Etymology: From Latin osanna, hosanna, from Ancient Greek ὡσαννά (hōsanná), from Aramaic אושענא/ܐܘܫܥܢܐ ('ōsha‘nā), from Biblical Hebrew הוֹשַׁע נָא (hōsha‘ nā, “please save”).
Senses: glosses: A cry of praise or adoration to God in liturgical use among the Jews, and said to have been shouted in recognition of the Messiahship of Jesus on his entry into Jerusalem; hence since used in the Christian Church.
hosanna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hoʊˈzænə/
ipa: /hoʊˈzɑnə/
rhymes: -ænə
Forms: form: hosannas
form: hosana
form: hosannah
form: hoshanna
form: hoshiana
Etymology: From Latin osanna, hosanna, from Ancient Greek ὡσαννά (hōsanná), from Aramaic אושענא/ܐܘܫܥܢܐ ('ōsha‘nā), from Biblical Hebrew הוֹשַׁע נָא (hōsha‘ nā, “please save”).
Senses: examples: text: When we arrived in New York, we found a day of extreme brilliance. It would be impossible ever to forget the first sight of the groups of slender towers that form the skyline of New York City, chanting hosannas to an autumn sky.
ref: 1962 February, Osbert Sitwell, “New York in the Twenties”, in The Atlantic:
text: Imagine God in Heaven surrounded by the choirs of adoring angels singing hosannahs unendingly.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 24:
text: The hall rang with the hosannas of the faithful, while the women knelt at his feet to ask for salvation.
ref: 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 23:
text: I’ve written before about the inevitable, tragic dynamic of this brokeback bromance; Trump needs a mindless cheering section screaming hosannas no matter how often he stumbles toward the nuclear and political precipice.
ref: 2018 January 5, Rick Wilson, “Bannon Banished for Telling Truths About Trump as MAGA Monsters Turn on Each Other”, in The Daily Beast:
glosses: A cry of ‘hosanna’.
hosanna
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hoʊˈzænə/
ipa: /hoʊˈzɑnə/
rhymes: -ænə
Forms: form: hosannas
form: hosannaing
form: hosannaed
form: hosannaed
form: hosana
form: hosannah
form: hoshanna
form: hoshiana
Etymology: From Latin osanna, hosanna, from Ancient Greek ὡσαννά (hōsanná), from Aramaic אושענא/ܐܘܫܥܢܐ ('ōsha‘nā), from Biblical Hebrew הוֹשַׁע נָא (hōsha‘ nā, “please save”).
Senses: glosses: To give a cry of ‘hosanna’.
hosannah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hosannahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hosanna.
hosannah
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hosannahs
form: hosannahing
form: hosannahed
form: hosannahed
Senses: examples: 1907-09, Mark Twain, "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven"
when they were singing or hosannahing, the noise was wonderful
glosses: Alternative spelling of hosanna.
hawker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔːkə/
ipa: /ˈhɔkɚ/
ipa: /ˈhɑkɚ/
rhymes: -ɔːkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hawkers
Etymology: Probably Borrowed from Low German or Dutch, from Middle Low German hoker and ultimately from the root of huckster.
Senses: examples: text: The other [witness] was one Sim Doolittle, the fish hawker from Allerfoot, jogging home in his fish cart from Gledsmuir fair.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: First-generation hawkers were mostly immigrants from China, and to a smaller extent from India and the Malay Archipelago. A 1950 Hawkers Inquiry Commission report stated that 84 per cent of the hawkers in Singapore were Chinese.
ref: 2011 May 24, Azhar Ghani, “A Recipe for Success: How Singapore Hawker Centres Came to Be”, in IPS Update, Singapore: Institute of Policy Studies:
glosses: A peddler, a huckster, a person who sells easily transportable goods.
glosses: Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a darner.
glosses: A seller of food in a hawker centre.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Aeshna caerulea
word: azure hawker
taxonomic: Aeshna cyanea
word: blue hawker
taxonomic: Aeshna grandis
word: brown hawker
taxonomic: Aeshna juncea
word: common hawker
word: hawker center
word: hawker centre
word: hawkering
word: hawkerless
word: hawker stand
word: hawk
taxonomic: Aeshna mixta
word: migrant hawker
taxonomic: Aeshna juncea
word: moorland hawker
taxonomic: Aeshna cyanea
word: southern hawker
hawker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔːkə/
ipa: /ˈhɔkɚ/
ipa: /ˈhɑkɚ/
rhymes: -ɔːkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hawkers
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English hawkere, from Old English hafocere, hafecere; by surface analysis, hawk + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who breeds and trains hawks and other falcons; a falconer.
Derived terms: hawkerless
hawkery
panic buying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panic buyings
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The buying of commodities or other assets earlier than normal, or in quantities greater than normal, because of rumours of coming shortages or price rises.
Related terms: impulse buying
panic selling
revenge buying
harmonisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: harmonisations
Etymology: From harmony + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of harmonization.
syrup of figs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syrups of figs
Senses: glosses: A type of laxative made from figs.
glosses: A wig.
cavort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈvɔːt/
ipa: /kəˈvɔɹt/
ipa: /kəˈvoːt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: cavorts
form: cavorting
form: cavorted
form: cavorted
Etymology: Originated in the United States in 1793, as cauvaut, applying to horses, probably from the colloquial intensifying prefix ca-/ka- + vault (“jump, leap”); later generalized. Early sources connect it to cavault, a term for a certain demeanor of horses. Alternatively, a variation of curvet.
Senses: examples: text: […] when the young man whirled his horse, “hazed” Jupiter in circles and belaboured him with a rawhide quirt, […] He ceased his cavortings […]
ref: 1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter I, in The Understanding Heart:
glosses: To prance, frolic, gambol.
raw_tags: of horses
examples: text: And dragon-flies sported around and cavorted, / As poets say dragon-flies ought to do; […]
ref: 1900, Guy Wetmore Carryl, “The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet”, in Mother Goose for Grownups:
text: He whirligigged and pirouetted, dancing and cavorting round like an inebriated ape.
ref: 1911, Jack London, “Chapter XI”, in The Cruise of the Snark:
text: […]and soon a high-spirited snowball fight was being waged by dozens of happy, hyperkinetic boys cavorting in dungarees and T-shirts, in sweatsuits, in pajamas, even some in only underwear.
ref: 2008, Philip Roth, Indignation:
text: They descended by the tens of thousands on Britain’s southern beaches and jammed into city parks. They cavorted by the hundreds in streams.
ref: 2020 June 26, Ceylan Yeginsu, “Lockdown? What Lockdown? Heat Wave Brings Britons Out in Droves”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: […] while a woman in a bright red coat cavorts through a crosswalk with what appears to be an impeccably groomed Afghan hound.
ref: 2021 February 24, Nicholas Kulish, “When Influencers Make Fools of Themselves”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: romp
frolic
prance
caper
glosses: To move about carelessly, playfully or boisterously.
examples: text: We can't even write stories about moguls like Rupert Murdoch or Barry Diller unless it involves photographs of them cavorting with young flesh.
ref: 2014, Astra Taylor, quoting James Fallows, The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:
glosses: To engage in extravagant pursuits, especially of a sexual nature.
Derived terms: cavorter
cavortingly
Related terms: horse around
punch-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌntʃˌʌp/
Forms: form: punch-ups
Etymology: Deverbal from punch up.
Senses: synonyms: word: fight
word: affray
word: dust-up
word: fracas
word: kerfuffle
word: ruckus
word: set to
word: set-to
word: stoush
glosses: A fight with the fists.
Related terms: punch-up session
punch-up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌntʃˌʌp/
Etymology: Deverbal from punch up.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of punch up.
Jell-O
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɛloʊ/
ipa: /ˈdʒɛləʊ/
rhymes: -ɛləʊ
Forms: form: jello
form: Jello
form: Jell-o
form: JELL-O
Etymology: Trademarked by Pearle Bixby Wait and named by his wife, May Wait. From gelatin and jelly, following a then relatively popular trend to add “O” to the end of products.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Jell-O.
glosses: A brand of dessert made from gelatin.
examples: text: The store brand Jell-O is just as good and one third the price.
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Jell-O.
synonyms: word: jelly
qualifier: genericized trademark
glosses: Any brand of fruit flavored gelatin dessert mix.
Derived terms: Jell-O shot
nail Jell-O to a tree
nihilate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nihilates
form: nihilating
form: nihilated
form: nihilated
Etymology: From Latin nihilō (“to reduce to nothing”).
Senses: glosses: To annul.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The action of consciousness, which is the origin of negation in facticity.
Derived terms: nihilator
Related terms: nihilation
broad bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broad beans
form: broadbean
Senses: examples: text: The term 'bean' originally referred to the seed of the broad bean.
glosses: An edible bean that has broad seeds (Vicia faba).
Synonyms: sense: Vicia faba
word: Faba sativa
sense: Vicia faba
word: horse bean
sense: Vicia faba
word: fava bean
sense: Vicia faba
word: faba bean
sense: Vicia faba
word: field bean
sense: Vicia faba
word: bell bean
sense: Vicia faba
word: English bean
sense: Vicia faba
word: Windsor bean
sense: Vicia faba
word: pigeon bean
sense: Vicia faba
word: tic bean
sense: Vicia faba
word: tick bean
leftenant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛfˈtɛnənt/
note: Indic
ipa: /lɛfʈənəɳʈ/
Forms: form: leftenants
Etymology: Phonetic rendering of lieutenant (UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, US (archaic))
Senses: examples: text: He is said to be a leftenant. Of the police force. A leftenant.
ref: 1909, William N. Famous, Colonel Crook Stories, page 3:
glosses: Archaic form of lieutenant.
glosses: Misspelling of lieutenant.
stressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stress
stressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: more stressed
form: most stressed
Senses: glosses: Suffering stress (either physical or mental).
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Having a stress or accent.
Synonyms: harassed
harried
tried
Related terms: stressed out
stressed-out
mammogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mammograms
form: mammogramme
Etymology: From mammo- + -gram.
Senses: examples: text: If I had found out in 2010, when I had the mammogram, I would not have wanted preventive surgery because I hoped to have another child, and I wanted to breastfeed again.
ref: 2023 February 6, Hilary Osborne, “I thought knowing I had the ‘cancer gene’ would cast a shadow over my life. Now I have it, I realise how wrong I was”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: An influential group of medical experts, the US Preventive Services Task Force, recommended last week that most women receive a mammogram starting at age 40. […] This is a marked difference from the task force’s previous guidance, which was to start biennial mammograms by age 50.
ref: 2024 May 8, Katia Hetter, “Mammograms are now recommended starting at age 40. Should you get one?”, in CNN:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An X-ray picture of the breasts (mammaries), used to screen for breast cancer.
Derived terms: xeromammogram
Related terms: mammography
breast thermography
fall on deaf ears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls on deaf ears
form: falling on deaf ears
form: fell on deaf ears
form: fallen on deaf ears
Senses: examples: text: Every time I ask him to do something for me, it falls on deaf ears.
text: Then there's the sad fact that for many, this place is all they know. It's home. Soooo, conversation relating to living beyond the walls falls on deaf ears sometimes.
ref: 1984 August 18, Eronel, “Women In Cages”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 6, page 6:
text: My earlier warnings, both in RAIL and in an article I wrote for The Times, have not fallen on deaf ears. There are many people (I suspect most) in the [rail] industry who recognise that telling people not to use their trains will cause lasting damage, but they are silenced publicly because they are now taking the Government's shilling.
ref: 2020 June 17, Christian Wolmar, “The strategy of 'don't use the railways' must be reversed...”, in Rail, page 44:
synonyms: go in one ear and out the other
glosses: To be ignored.
Related terms: turn a deaf ear
preach to deaf ears
have someone's guts for garters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has someone's guts for garters
form: having someone's guts for garters
form: had someone's guts for garters
form: had someone's guts for garters
Etymology: By metaphor from the way that humans use animal intestines as catgut for various tensile applications; compare have someone's hide.
Senses: examples: text: If you go out and play and get your clothes dirty, I'll have your guts for garters!
synonyms: see at have someone's head
glosses: To reprimand severely.
retinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retina
retinae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛt.əˌni/
ipa: /ˈɹɛt.əˌnaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of retina
retains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈteɪnz/
ipa: /ɹəˈteɪnz/
ipa: /ɹi-/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retain
retains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈteɪnz/
ipa: /ɹəˈteɪnz/
ipa: /ɹi-/
Senses: glosses: plural of retain
nastier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of nasty: more nasty
antsier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of antsy: more antsy
restain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈsteɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: restains
form: restaining
form: restained
form: restained
Etymology: From re- + stain.
Senses: glosses: to stain again
extract the urine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: extracts the urine
form: extracting the urine
form: extracted the urine
form: extracted the urine
Senses: examples: text: Now, Merilyn is neither bizarre nor eccentric in the ordinary sense but when she started talking about the ‘presence’ in her shop I thought she was extracting the urine.
ref: 1997, Des Ryan, “Close brush with hairafter”, in The Messenger: Selected Columns from Messenger Newspapers, 1993-2003, Wakefield Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 42:
text: Actually Connie it refers to the way we extract the urine out of the apparent social differences between each country.
ref: 2001 August 19, "BigAl", “Re: fare thee well”, in alt.music.leonard-cohen (Usenet):
text: This is what the English do; take the piss (or as we say at school, extract the urine).
ref: 2006, Tyne O'Connell, Dumping Princess, Bloomsbury USA, published 2007, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: to mock, make fun of something
irreligious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪɹɪˈlɪd͡ʒəs/
rhymes: -ɪdʒəs
Forms: form: more irreligious
form: most irreligious
Etymology: From Latin irreligiōsus. By surface analysis, ir- + religious.
Senses: examples: (not the same, just as "not black" or "not female" does not equal "anti-black" or "anti-female")
synonyms: nonreligious
areligious
coordinate_terms: antireligious
antireligion
agnostic
glosses: Having no relation to religion.
examples: text: [T]he virtuous reader may condemn her for showing too great regard to a base-born infant, to which all charity is condemned by law as irreligious […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
glosses: Contrary to religious beliefs and practices.
glosses: Contrary to religious beliefs and practices.
In conscious rejection of religion.
synonyms: antireligious
antireligion
atheistic
atheist
coordinate_terms: agnostic
Derived terms: irreligiousness
Related terms: irreligiosity
irreligiously
religious
properties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɑpɚtiz/
ipa: /ˈpɹɒpətiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of property
irreligiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more irreligiously
form: most irreligiously
Etymology: From irreligious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an irreligious fashion.
divergent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈvɜː.d͡ʒənt/
ipa: /dɪˈvɜː.d͡ʒənt/
ipa: /dɪˈvɝ.d͡ʒənt/
ipa: /daɪˈvɝ.d͡ʒənt/
ipa: /dɑeˈvɜː.d͡ʒənt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒənt
Forms: form: more divergent
form: most divergent
Etymology: From Latin dis- (“apart”) + vergere (“to turn”) + the adjectival suffix -ent.
Senses: examples: text: Divergent thinking and transformations are, of course, no novel phenomena. They have always occurred in the translation process, but perhaps we have not been fully aware of them, or have not been able to categorise them with sufficient precision until now.
ref: 1995, Paul Kussmaul, Training The Translator, John Benjamins Publishing Co, page 47:
text: Four zebras stood despondent facing divergent directions like an old European film or a '90s band photo.
ref: 2020, “Zoo”, in Still at the Rough Cusp of Renaissance, performed by Good Fuck:
glosses: Growing further apart; diverging.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: (said of a sequence or series) Diverging; not approaching a limit.
examples: text: a divergent statement
glosses: Disagreeing from something given; differing.
examples: text: a divergent lens
glosses: Causing divergence of rays.
Derived terms: codivergent
divergent gill trama
divergently
divergent series
divergent thinking
enantiodivergent
hyperdivergent
hypodivergent
multidivergent
neurodivergent
nondivergent
normodivergent
regiodivergent
stereodivergent
undivergent
Related terms: diverge
converge
humidify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hjuːˈmɪdɪfaɪ/
Forms: form: humidifies
form: humidifying
form: humidified
form: humidified
Etymology: From humid + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: The air-handling equipment humidifies, dehumidifies, and distributes the correct amount of fresh air into every zone and eliminates all smoke, dust, and odors, with electric precipitrons.
ref: 1949, Proceedings of the ... Consolidated Convention of the International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, Iron Ship Builders, and Helpers of America, page 159:
glosses: To increase the humidity in the air.
Derived terms: dehumidification
dehumidifier
humidification
humidifier
rehumidify
humidifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humidifiers
Etymology: From humidify + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Even the plants look expensive. A humidifier hisses beneath her calatheas.
ref: 2023, R. F. Kuang, Yellowface, The Borough Press, page 11:
glosses: A device that is used to increase the humidity of the air.
Related terms: humidify
disciplinarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsɪplɪˈnɛəɹɪən/
Forms: form: disciplinarians
Etymology: From discipline + -arian or disciplinary + -an.
Senses: examples: text: He is the chief disciplinarian in the school.
text: Miss Brownell had the reputation in Blair Water of being a fine teacher—due mainly to the fact that she was a strict disciplinarian and kept excellent “order.”
ref: 1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 8”, in Emily of New Moon:
glosses: One who exercises discipline.
glosses: One who believes in discipline as a tool for regulation or control.
Derived terms: disciplinarianism
multidisciplinarian
Related terms: disciple
disciplinarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsɪplɪˈnɛəɹɪən/
Forms: form: more disciplinarian
form: most disciplinarian
Etymology: From discipline + -arian or disciplinary + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Disciplinarian system.
ref: 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity:
glosses: Relating to discipline.
regency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːd͡ʒənsi/
Forms: form: regencies
Etymology: From Middle English regencie (cf. regente), from Medieval Latin regentia, from Latin regēns, present participle of regō. By surface analysis, regent + -cy; compare also + -ency (“abstract-noun suffix”).
Senses: glosses: A system of government that substitutes for the reign of a king or queen when that king or queen becomes unable to rule.
glosses: The time during which a regent is in power.
glosses: An administrative division ranking below a province in Indonesia.
Related terms: regent
regal
regalia
coregency
interregnum
demystification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: demystifications
Etymology: From de- + mystification.
Senses: glosses: The removal of mystery or confusion surrounding a topic or idea.
Related terms: demystify
mystery
bastinado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːdəʊ
Forms: form: bastinadoes
form: bastinade
Etymology: From Spanish bastonada (compare French bastonnade), from baston (“a stick or staff”).
Senses: examples: text: [H]e is Sir / The moſt vnutterable covvard, that ere nature / Bleſt vvith hard ſhoulders, vvhich vvere only giuen him, / To the ruine of baſtinados.
ref: c. 1607–1621 (date written), [Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher; Philip Massinger], The Tragedy of Thierry King of France, and His Brother Theodoret. […], London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1621, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, signature E, recto:
glosses: A blow with a cudgel or stick.
glosses: Beating the bare soles of the feet with a stick as a form of corporal punishment used primarily within prisons in various countries. The receiving person is required to be barefoot.
bastinado
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɑːdəʊ
Forms: form: bastinadoes
form: bastinadoing
form: bastinadoed
form: bastinadoed
form: bastinade
Etymology: From Spanish bastonada (compare French bastonnade), from baston (“a stick or staff”).
Senses: glosses: To punish a person by beating the bare soles of the feet, using a stick or truncheon.
spinsterhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinsterhoods
Etymology: From spinster + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: sheʼs long ago resigned herself to eternal spinsterhood, to a future without the joys of marriage and motherhood
ref: 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 387:
glosses: The condition of being a spinster.
glosses: The time during which one is a spinster.
tidbit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪd.bɪt/
ipa: [ˈtʰɪd̚.bɪt̚]
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: tidbits
form: titbit
Etymology: From tid (“fond, tender, nice”) + bit (“morsel”).
Senses: examples: text: The best mode of cutting up this Poultry is by raising, one after another, the four members, beginning by a thigh and wing on the same side, the tidbits and the white-meats; then break off the rump, and cut the body horizontally. Divide each thigh into two, and wing into three pieces; the body and the rump making six distinct ones; the white meats remaining entire. Place each piece on the dish in such a manner that all may be seen. All this should be done as quickly and cleverly as possible, in order to prevent the pieces getting cold. The tidbit is a veiny piece under the thigh, at the beginning of wing.
ref: 1846, French Domestic Cookery, Combining Elegance with Economy:
text: If in any case he ever reserved the tidbits of his own table for his own taste, he was never weary of sending the whole joint, tidbit and all, nay even when the whole joint was itself a tidbit, to his neighbor's table.
ref: 1875, Death of Hon. Samuel Hooper:
glosses: A part of poultry when prepared as food
examples: text: Only a tidbit to a ravenous mouth. (Said when the little tidbit Denmark flies down the huge gullet of Prussia; or when Saghalin falls into Russia's maw.)
ref: 1887, William Elliot Griffis, The Mikado's Empire:
glosses: A tasty morsel (of food).
examples: text: In the congressional apportionment that followed the 1910 census, the average district had 210,328 people, according to the Census Bureau. We make note of this historical tidbit simply to emphasize the obvious fact that DC’s current population is far greater than the population of many of the districts of generations past.
ref: 2021 April 21, Daniel Dale, “Fact-checking Nancy Mace’s claim that DC wouldn’t ‘qualify’ as a single congressional district”, in CNN:
text: “Gossip” is about a lot more than just juicy tidbits and the columnists that peddle them, presenting a multifaceted look at gossip’s role in the newspaper/media ecosystem and at Rupert Murdoch’s enterprises in particular.
ref: 2021 August 20, Brian Lowry, “‘Gossip’ charts how tabloid tattlers ‘escaped from their cages’ and rippled through the media”, in CNN:
glosses: A short item of news, gossip, or information.
examples: text: This little book is very entertaining—quite a literary tidbit.
ref: 1894, Richard Soule, Loomis Joseph Campbell, Pronouncing Handbook of Words Often Mispronounced and of Words as to which a Choice of Pronunciation is Allowed:
glosses: Generically, any small thing.
bitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪt͡ʃɪz/
ipa: /ˈbɪt͡ʃəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of bitch
bitches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪt͡ʃɪz/
ipa: /ˈbɪt͡ʃəz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bitch
jeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Alteration of Jesus.
Senses: glosses: used to express surprise
Derived terms: jeepers creepers
applecart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: applecarts
form: apple cart
form: apple-cart
Etymology: From apple + cart.
Senses: glosses: A barrow from which apples and other fruit were formerly sold in the street
applecart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: applecarts
form: apple cart
form: apple-cart
Etymology: Back-formation from upset the applecart.
Senses: glosses: A planned situation.
Derived terms: upset the applecart
upset someone's applecart
upset the applecart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upsets the applecart
form: upsetting the applecart
form: upset the applecart
form: upset the applecart
form: upset the apple cart
Senses: examples: text: “There are three reasons,” Trent answered. “First, he may find his way to England and upset the applecart; […]”
ref: 1900, E. Phillips Oppenheim, chapter 22, in A Millionaire of Yesterday:
text: She told me herself just now that the worst was over. And those confounded people must go and upset the applecart.
ref: 1922, William Somerset Maugham, Caesar's Wife, act 3, page 136:
text: Last week the Senate Banking Committee upset the carefully stacked apple cart when it voted 10 to 5 not to approve the Administration's bill.
ref: 1979 December 10, “Business: Putting Brakes on a Bailout”, in Time, archived from the original on 10 Feb 2012:
text: This kind of impact causes contusions in the front and back areas of the brain and can create microscopic bleeding and shearing of neural pathways, causing synapses to misfire, upsetting the applecart of your brain, sometimes forever.
ref: 2011, Mira Bartók, The Memory Palace, →ISBN, page 5:
synonyms: word: cook someone's goose
word: drive a coach and horses through
word: crab
word: ball up
word: blight
word: botch
word: bugger up
word: bungle
word: dirty
word: undo
word: disrupt
word: disturb
word: fuck up
word: jack up
word: mar
word: mess up
word: mishandle
word: mommick
word: pollute
word: put a crimp in
word: queer
word: ruin
word: screw up
word: sour
word: spoil
word: stain
word: upset
word: turn upside down
word: upset the applecart
word: vitiate
word: burst someone's bubble
word: piss in someone's cornflakes
word: piss in someone's Cheerios
word: piss on someone's bonfire
word: piss on someone's chips
word: put a damper on
word: piss on someone's campfire
word: rain on someone's parade
word: shit in someone's cereal
word: shit in someone's Cheerios
word: take the wind out of someone's sails
word: upset the applecart
glosses: To disorganize or spoil something, especially an established arrangement or plan.
eka-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪkə/
Etymology: From Sanskrit एक (eka, “one, first”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Used to form prototype names for as-yet undiscovered elements, when prepended to the known element above them in the same group of the periodic table.
Derived terms: eka-actinium
eka-aluminium
eka-aluminum
eka-astatine
eka-bismuth
eka-boron
eka-francium
eka-gold
eka-hafnium
eka-iridium
eka-lead
eka-manganese
eka-mercury
eka-osmium
eka-platinum
eka-polonium
eka-protactinium
eka-radium
eka-radon
eka-rhenium
eka-silicon
eka-tantalum
eka-thallium
eka-thorium
eka-tungsten
eka-uranium
eka-wolfram
Related terms: dvi-
tri-
postgraduate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpəʊstˈɡɹædju.ət/
Forms: form: postgraduates
Etymology: From post- + graduate.
Senses: glosses: A person continuing to study in a field after having successfully completed a degree course.
Synonyms: word: postgrad
word: graduate student
word: PG
postgraduate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpəʊstˈɡɹædju.ət/
Etymology: From post- + graduate.
Senses: examples: text: In May, a proclamation was issued specifically targeting Chinese nationals and denying them F and J visas used to attend graduate and postgraduate programs in the US. Trump’s new action suspends the issuance of new visas H-1B visas for professional workers; H-2Bs for non-agricultural seasonal workers, J-1s for cultural exchanges and L-1s for intracompany transfers.
ref: 2020 June 23, Ushma S. Neill, “The hidden health cost of Trump’s visa freeze”, in CNN:
glosses: Of studies which take place after having successfully completed a degree course.
Derived terms: postgrad
Visayan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Bisaya
form: Bisayan
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Visayans or the Visayas.
Derived terms: Visayan spotted deer
Visayan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Visayans
form: Bisaya
form: Bisayan
Senses: glosses: A native or descendant of the Visayan people of the Philippines.
Visayan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bisaya
form: Bisayan
Senses: glosses: A subgroup of the Austronesian languages spoken in the Philippines.
ingratitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈɡɹætɪtud/
ipa: /ɪnˈɡɹætɪtjuːd/
ipa: /ɪnˈɡɹætɪtʃuːd/
Forms: form: ingratitudes
Etymology: From Old French ingratitude, from Late Latin ingrātitūdō. By surface analysis, in- + gratitude.
Senses: examples: text: “Mrs. Yule's chagrin and horror at what she called her son's base ingratitude knew no bounds ; at first it was even thought that she would never get over it.[…]”
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
text: Blondie: Tut, tut. Such ingratitude after all the times I saved your life.
ref: 1966, Age & Scarpelli, Sergio Leone, and Luciano Vincenzoni (writers), Sergio Leone (director), Clint Eastwood (actor), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (movie), Produzioni Europee Associati
antonyms: gratitude
glosses: A lack or absence of gratitude; thanklessness.
Related terms: ungrateful
podex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: podexes
form: podices
Etymology: From Latin pōdex.
Senses: examples: text: If these native babes went around with their podexes exposed they wouldn't have any because the mosquitoes would eat them off.
ref: 1953, Jack Woodford, Writer's Cramp, page 35:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The anus, rectum, or buttocks of a human.
examples: text: Ligament which stretches over the surface of the uterus, running obliquely from the podex to the raceme.
ref: 1942, Fabricius (ab Aquapendente), Howard Bernhardt Adelmann (translator), The Embryological Treatises of Hieronymus Fabricius of Aquapendente (page 229)
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The rear end of any animal.
pharmacist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fär'məsĭst
ipa: /ˈfɑɹməsɪst/
Forms: form: pharmacists
Etymology: From pharmacy (“the art of preparing drugs, a drug, especially laxatives”) + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: He has served as a prescriptionist to the leading pharmacists of the old country, and been employed in many of our American cities.
ref: 2013, Robin Sterling, People and Things from the Cullman, Alabama Tribune 1877 - 1898, →ISBN:
text: By Admir, pharmacist by profession and hobby dronist by passion.
ref: 2017 February 25, Simon Cocking, “Dronalism and The New Media”, in Irish Tech News:
qualifier: pharmacy
glosses: A health professional who controls, formulates, preserves, and dispenses medications and provides medical advice and counseling on how medicines should be used in order to achieve maximum benefit, and minimal side effects in order to avoid drug interactions.
qualifier: pharmacy
glosses: One who studies pharmacy.
Synonyms: word: druggist
word: chemist
word: pharmacian
word: apothecary
word: pharmacopolist
word: quack
word: snake oil salesman
word: pharmacopole
word: gallipot
Derived terms: ethnopharmacist
nonpharmacist
polypharmacist
radiopharmacist
street pharmacist
Related terms: pharmacy
retail pharmacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retail pharmacies
Senses: synonyms: community pharmacy
coordinate_terms: hospital pharmacy
dispensary
glosses: A pharmacy in which drugs are sold to patients, as opposed to a hospital pharmacy.
glosses: The concept of pharmacy as a retailing activity.
foreign policy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreign policies
Senses: examples: text: WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.
ref: 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:
text: Willing to upend the nation’s postwar role as a bulwark against authoritarianism, he promises to usher in a foreign policy rooted in “America First” transactionalism.
ref: 2024 December 12, Eric Cortellessa, “Donald Trump 2024 TIME Person of the Year”, in Time:
glosses: A government's policy relating to relations with other nations and international organisations.
examples: text: Bismarck's foreign policy.
glosses: Used retrospectively, the sum of a leader or government's dealings and relations with other nations.
Related terms: foreign affairs
diplomacy
Foreign Office
underwater basket weaving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Sure, somewhere out there, college slackers were taking broom ball and underwater basket weaving.
ref: 2005 September 15, The Columbus Dispatch:
synonyms: feminist dance therapy
lesbian dance theory
glosses: A college or high school course or major that is easy and absurd but will not result in finding a job or contributing anything valuable to society.
gainsharing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gain-sharing
Etymology: From gain + sharing.
Senses: coordinate_terms: painsharing
glosses: A compensation system in which companies share the financial value of performance gains, such as productivity, cost savings, or quality, with their workers.
farfetched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more farfetched
form: most farfetched
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of far-fetched.
philanderer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪˈlæn.də.ɹɚ/
ipa: /fɪˈlæn.dɚ.ɚ/
enpr: fĭ-lănʹ-də-rər
enpr: fĭ-lănʹ-dər-ər
ipa: /fɪˈlæn.də.ɹə/
enpr: fĭ-lănʹ-də-rə
Forms: form: philanderers
Etymology: From philander (“lover”) + -er, from Ancient Greek φίλανδρος (phílandros), from φίλος (phílos, “love”) + ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”).
Senses: glosses: One who plays at courtship; a fickle lover; a flirt (usually applies only to men).
glosses: Someone who engages in casual sex – usually frequently.
ballad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæləd/
note: Appalachians, obsolete
ipa: /ˈbælɪt/
Forms: form: ballads
Etymology: From French ballade, from Old Occitan ballada (“poem for a dance”), from Late Latin ballare. Doublet of ballade.
Senses: examples: text: The poet composed a ballad praising the heroic exploits of the fallen commander.
text: Of all varieties of poetry, the Ballad, in the form which it affects among us, in distinction to other countries, is, perhaps, one of the most attractive.
ref: 1882, John Ashton, “Origin of Ballads”, in John Skelton, A Ballade of the Scottysshe Kynge. […], London: Elliot Stock, […], →OCLC, page 1:
text: A wandering minstrel I — / A thing of shreds and patches, / Of ballads, songs and snatches, / And dreamy lullaby!
ref: 1885, Gilbert and Sullivan, The Mikado, act 1:
glosses: A kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; especially, a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas.
examples: text: On Friday nights, the roller rink had a time-block called "Lovers' Lap" when they played nothing but ballads on the overhead speakers.
text: He was playing the guitar and singing a ballad to his girlfriend while she was playing the drums.
glosses: A slow romantic song.
Derived terms: balladeer
ballader
balladesque
balladic
balladist
balladize
balladlike
balladling
balladmonger
ballad opera
balladry
balladwise
border ballad
bothy ballad
bush ballad
murder ballad
power ballad
ballad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæləd/
note: Appalachians, obsolete
ipa: /ˈbælɪt/
Forms: form: ballads
form: ballading
form: balladed
form: balladed
Etymology: From French ballade, from Old Occitan ballada (“poem for a dance”), from Late Latin ballare. Doublet of ballade.
Senses: glosses: To make mention of in ballads.
glosses: To compose or sing ballads.
balladeer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: balladeers
Etymology: From ballad + -eer.
Senses: glosses: A singer, particularly a professional singer who performs ballads.
balladeer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: balladeers
form: balladeering
form: balladeered
form: balladeered
Etymology: From ballad + -eer.
Senses: examples: text: Revisiting familiar lied texts […] or simply balladeering in The Light That Is Felt, Ives begins songs the way we expect him to and then takes us someplace we would not have thought of going.
ref: 2007 October 31, Bernard Holland, “Ives, Master of the Exotic and the Old”, in New York Times:
glosses: To sing a ballad
lodestone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈloʊdˌstoʊn/
Forms: form: lodestones
form: loadstone
Etymology: First attested from 1515, from Middle English lode (“guide”) + stone. From use as a guide tool by mariners. See also: lodestar.
Senses: glosses: The mineral magnetite.
glosses: Any naturally occurring magnet.
examples: text: an ideological lodestone
glosses: The focus of one's attraction or attention
alpha testing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: testing
glosses: A process where a software application approaching full functionality is made available to a group of sophisticated users.
Hypernyms: testing
Greco-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɛkoʊ-/
ipa: /ˈɡɹikoʊ-/
Forms: form: Graeco-
form: Græco-
Senses: examples: text: Greco-Roman wrestling is an Olympic sport bringing back the style of the Ancient Greeks and Roman physicality.
synonyms: Helleno-
glosses: Greek, often in reference to ancient Greece.
bottom dollar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottom dollars
Senses: glosses: The last of one's money; all of one's money.
Derived terms: bet one's bottom dollar
Related terms: bottom line
rock bottom
signum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪɡnəm/
Forms: form: signa
form: signums
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin signum. Doublet of sign.
Senses: glosses: A sign, mark, or symbol.
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
synonyms: signum bell
glosses: A medieval tower bell used particularly for ringing the eight canonical hours.
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: signum function
sign function
glosses: A function that extracts the sign of a real number x, yielding −1 if x is negative, +1 if x is positive, or 0 if x is zero.
Related terms: signum manus
vandalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vandalise
glia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡliːə/
ipa: /ˈɡliə/
ipa: /ˈɡlaɪə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γλία (glía), γλοία (gloía, “glue”), γλοιός (gloiós, “a glutinous substance, gum”)
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The network of glial cells that supports nervous system tissue.
Synonyms: neuroglia
Hyponyms: oligodendrocyte
astrocyte
ependymal cell
microglia
Schwann cell
satellite cell
Derived terms: astroglia
glial
glial cell
glialike
glio-
gliocyte
glioma
gliosis
macroglia
microglia
myoglia
neuroglia
oligodendroglia
vandalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vandalize
glioma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlaɪˈəʊmə/
Forms: form: gliomas
form: gliomata
Etymology: From glia + -oma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A tumour that arises from glial cells in the brain or spinal cord
Derived terms: angioglioma
antiglioma
astroglioma
dendroglioma
ganglioglioma
gliomagenesis
gliomagenic
gliomal
gliomasphere
gliomatosis
intraglioma
microglioma
neuroglioma
pseudoglioma
sourpuss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaʊə(ɹ)ˌpʊs/
Forms: form: sourpusses
Etymology: From sour (“bad-tempered”) + puss (“slang for mouth”).
Senses: examples: text: They butt heads sometimes because Jenna can be pretty selfish and tone-deaf, and Jeordie can be a little bit of a sourpuss.
ref: 2025, S.E. Case, “Bonus Comics”, in Rigsby WI, volume 1: Foothold, →ISBN, page Ladies Be Shopping:
glosses: A person who is habitually gloomy, sullen or miserable; a grouch; a scowling person.