cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
a new broom sweeps clean
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: new brooms sweep clean
Senses: glosses: New management will often make radical changes.
Derived terms: word: a new broom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners
raw_tags: of Nations
Related terms: clean sweep
one nail drives out another
computational chemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The use of computation to predict the structure, properties and reactions of molecules
kippen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kippens
form: kippeen
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish cipín (“stick used for planting; matchstick”).
Senses: glosses: A piece of small firewood or kindling; dibber
confocal microscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An imaging technique in which pinholes are used to eliminate out-of-focus light
pinhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪnˌhoʊl/
Forms: form: pinholes
form: pin-hole
Etymology: From pin + hole.
Senses: glosses: A small hole, of a size that could have been made by a pin
examples: text: These [the eyes of the nautilus] are the simplest eyes of any large living animal -- lensless 'pinholes' that project a hazy and rather dim image onto its retinas.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 216:
glosses: The aperture in a pinhole camera or camera obscura
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A port left unprotected by a firewall to allow a particular application to gain access to a service.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A clipping of pinhole eye, which refers to the compact eye structure associated with intense tropical cyclones.
Derived terms: pinhole camera
pinhole chert
pinhole detector
pinhole glasses
pinhole grass
pinhole pupil
pinhole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪnˌhoʊl/
Forms: form: pinholes
form: pinholing
form: pinholed
form: pinholed
form: pin-hole
Etymology: From pin + hole.
Senses: glosses: To form one or more pinholes in.
confocal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfəʊkəl/
ipa: /kənˈfoʊkəl/
Etymology: From con- + focal.
Senses: topics: engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: Having the same foci
Derived terms: confocal conic
confocal coordinate
confocal ellipse
confocal ellipsoidal coordinate
confocal hyperbola
confocality
confocalized
confocally
confocal microscope
confocal microscopy
confocal parabola
confocal parabolic coordinate
confocal quadric
confocal resonator
immunoconfocal
macroconfocal
nonconfocal
stereoconfocal
confocal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfəʊkəl/
ipa: /kənˈfoʊkəl/
Forms: form: confocals
Etymology: From con- + focal.
Senses: glosses: Any of a pair of confocal mirrors or lenses
concertgoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concertgoers
form: concert-goer
Etymology: From concert + goer.
Senses: glosses: A person who attends a concert, especially one who attends concerts often
conformal mapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conformal mappings
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A mapping, between points of one coordinate system and another, in which the angles of intersection between pairs of curves are preserved.
Hyponyms: Möbius transformation
conformal optics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A method of designing optical systems in which the conformation of the lenses is chosen to optimize its interaction with the local environment
conformational analysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conformational analyses
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The study of the arrangement in space of the constituent atoms of a molecule that may undergo rotation about one or more single bonds
Related terms: conformational isomerism
conformational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From conformation + -al.
Senses: examples: text: It is found that the clouding process is closely related to the conformational equilibrium of the ethyleneoxide chains, and that this equilibrium depends on the properties of the free ethyleneoxide chain, the solvation of the chain, but also to a large extent on the effect that the ethyleneoxide chain has on the effective water-water interaction.
ref: 2000, Gunnar Karlström, “On the origin of the solution behavior of ethyleneoxide containing polymers”, in P. Alexandridis, B. Lindman, editor, Amphiphilic Block Copolymers: Self-Assembly and Applications:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a conformation.
Derived terms: conformational analysis
conformational change
conformational entropy
conformational isomerism
conformationally
conformer
immunoconformational
multiconformational
nonconformational
preconformational
thermoconformational
conformational isomerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of isomerism in which isomers differ in the conformation of the molecule due to rotation of atoms about one or more single bonds
Related terms: conformational analysis
mardier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of mardy: more mardy
mardiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of mardy: most mardy
Noypis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Noypi
snail's pace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snail pace
Etymology: Due to the fact that snails move very slowly.
Senses: examples: text: My grandmother drives her car at a snail's pace.
text: He describes the operation thus: "The heavy ram employed to impart the finishing strokes, hoisted up with double purchase and snail's pace to the summit of the Piling Engine, and then falling down like a thunderbolt on the head of the devoted timber, driving it perhaps a single half inch in to the stratum below, is well calculated to put to the test the virtue of patience, while it illustrates the old adage of—slow and sure."
ref: 1952 July, W. R. Watson, “Sankey Viaduct and Embankment”, in Railway Magazine, page 487:
glosses: A frustratingly slow rate of speed.
Related terms: slow as a snail
slow as molasses
slow as molasses in January
walking pace
copular verb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copular verbs
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A verb that links a subject to a complement that refers to the subject.
Synonyms: linking verb
copula
palterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palterers
Etymology: From palter + -er.
Senses: examples: text: There be of you it may be, that will account me a paltrer, for hanging out the ſigne of the redde Herring in my title page, and no ſuch feaſt towards for ought you can ſee.
ref: 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 7:
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:palterer.
glosses: One who palters.
nucleons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nucleon
broken vessel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broken vessels
Etymology: From Old Testament symbolism that people are like clay vessels.
Senses: examples: text: I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind; I am like a broken vessel.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 31:12:
text: I am a broken vessel, Lord
rubble where a soul should be.
ref: 2000. Jill Alexander Essbaum, Kenosis (poem). Published in Heaven, University Press of New England, p. 48:http://books.google.com/books?id=vDQpQ8AzLPAC&pg=PA48&lpg=PA48&dq=%22i+am+a+broken+vessel%22&source=web&ots=ZTM7SmiZUK&sig=sfLc4PEUu7-tAY4q63i8dIofxsE#PPA48,M1
text: 2005. Kara Williamson, quote in Undisguised, the new project by singer/songwriter Kara Williamson, Your Guide to Christian Music, Gospel, Feb 4 2005.https://web.archive.org/web/20060529091348/http://christianmusic.about.com/od/upcomingreleases/a/aakaraWundisg.htm
I’m a broken vessel—thankfully, God uses broken vessels.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A person who is destroyed or forgotten, or who feels flawed or broken.
Related terms: potsherd
clickprint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clickprints
Etymology: Blend of click + fingerprint
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The unique pattern of a person’s Internet browsing activity.
clinical chemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Branch of pathology concerned with the chemical analysis of bodily fluids etc.
Synonyms: chemical pathology
clinical biochemistry
clinical biochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of clinical chemistry.
synonyms: word: clinical chemistry
Synonyms: chemical pathology
clinical chemistry
droopiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From droopy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being droopy.
dressiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dressy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being dressy.
dreariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drearinesses
Etymology: From Middle English drerinesse, drerynesse, from Old English drēoriġnys (“dreariness, sadness”), equivalent to dreary + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: What tho’ the moon—the white moon
Shed all the splendour of her noon,
Her smile is chilly—and her beam,
In that time of dreariness, will seem
(So like you gather in your breath)
A portrait taken after death.
ref: 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
synonyms: drearihead
gloom
melancholia
glosses: The characteristic of being dreary.
dauntlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dauntless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Struck by his desperate dauntlessness, and his wild desire to visit Christendom, the captain at last relented, and told him he might make himself at home.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 11:
glosses: The characteristic of being dauntless; fearlessness.
draftiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draughtiness
Etymology: From drafty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being drafty.
drabness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drabnesses
Etymology: From drab + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The loneliness and drabness of prison life is destroying me.
ref: 1980 April 12, Robert Hollins, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 19:
glosses: The characteristic of being drab.
downheartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From downhearted + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: word: melancholy
word: misery
word: unhappiness
word: blueness
word: mirthless
word: blues
word: crestfallenness
word: dejection
word: depression
word: despondency
word: distress
word: dolefulness
word: downheartedness
word: drearihead
word: forlornness
word: grief
word: heartsore
word: ill-being
word: infelicity
word: melancholia
word: melancholy
word: misery
word: mishappiness
word: mourn
word: prosternation
word: regret
word: rue
word: ruth
word: sadness
word: sorrow
word: sorrowfulness
word: tristfulness
word: undelight
word: unhappiness
word: woe
word: woefare
word: wretchedness
glosses: The characteristic of being downhearted; sadness.
divisiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divisivenesses
Etymology: From divisive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I realized today that the politics of divisiveness embraced by the neocons has worked, and it has worked on me.
ref: 2006 October 17, Gasonfires, “Neocon Divisiveness Has Worked - On Me! Oh Damn!”, in Daily Kos:
glosses: The characteristic of being divisive.
Related terms: dividedness
dissoluteness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dissolutenesses
Etymology: From dissolute + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Lack of restraint; excess.
examples: text: Wee dare not call our members by their proper names, and feare not to employ them in all kind of dissolutenese.
ref: , II.17
glosses: Looseness of morals; wantonness, licentiousness.
deviousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deviousnesses
Etymology: From devious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being devious; sneakiness; underhandedness.
deliriousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From delirious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being delirious.
underhandedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From underhanded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being underhanded.
Related terms: deception
deftness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛftnəs/
Forms: form: deftnesses
Etymology: From deft + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Skilfulness, being quick in action.
glosses: The characteristic of being deft.
delicateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From delicate + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the characteristic of being delicate; fragility
droopy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹuːpi/
rhymes: -uːpi
Forms: form: droopier
form: droopiest
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English drupi, from drup (“sad”), from Old Norse drúpr (“drooping sadness”); related to Middle English drupen, droupen (“to sag, droop”), also from Old Norse. By surface analysis, droop + -y.
Senses: glosses: Tending to droop; sagging; wilting.
Derived terms: droopily
droopiness
sagging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saggings
Senses: examples: text: It was noticed that there had been saggings and bulgings in the trays.
ref: 1969, Sugar Technologists' Association of India, Proceedings:
text: Overhead line electrification near London Euston is being overhauled in a four-week Network Rail project to reduce delays in hot weather. The OLE at Camden is being renewed and replaced to help prevent sagging, with some 2,000 metres of new wires being installed.
ref: 2020 June 17, “Network News: Overhead line equipment renewed at Camden”, in Rail, page 20:
glosses: The act of something that sags.
glosses: A manner of wearing pants or shorts below the waist, revealing some or all of the underwear.
sagging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sagging
form: most sagging
Senses: glosses: Worn low on the waist, or wearing pants or shorts low on the waist.
raw_tags: of a person or clothes
examples: text: For OLE, the same is true for sagging overhead wires. Slower trains are less likely to cause a dewirement - and make less mess even if they do pull the wires down.
ref: 2022 August 10, Gareth Dennis, “How can we run trains when the heat is on?”, in RAIL, number 963, page 45:
glosses: Hanging down loosely.
sagging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sag
droopier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of droopy: more droopy
droopiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of droopy: most droopy
oyster mushroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oyster mushrooms
Senses: examples: text: Particularly good cooking techniques for the Oyster mushroom are stir or deep frying, sautéing, and braising. Some folks enjoy eating them raw in salads, but we do not recommend this. Oyster mushrooms are complemented by onions, butter, mild cheeses, fish, chicken, cream sauces, and gentle herbs.
ref: 1997, Arleen Raines Bessette, Taming the Wild Mushroom: A Culinary Guide to Market Foraging, page 31:
text: Oyster Mushrooms always grow on wood—but sometimes above roots or beside stumps, which creates the illusion they're growing from soil, which they're not.
ref: 2009, Joe McFarland, Gregory M. Mueller, Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States, page 51:
text: Harvesting wild oyster mushrooms has always been a favorite fall gathering activity for me as a Michigan outdoorsman.
ref: 2013, Joe Lunkas, Fifty Years of Gathering, Fishing, and Unusual Animal Encounters, page 30:
glosses: The mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus, which in the wild grows chiefly on hardwood trees, and is cultivated for food.
examples: text: It is apparent that the production of Oyster mushroom in early 80's was negligible but due to simplicity of cultivation procedure and broad adaptability of different Pleurotus species, the Oyster mushroom has emerged as a mushroom of significance and it is expected that the production will continue to increase especially in South-East Asian countries.
ref: 2006, K. G. Mukerji, C. Manoharachary, Current Concepts in Botany, page 93:
text: 2006, OECD, Safety Assessment of Transgenic Organisms, OECD Consensus Documents, Volume 1, page 277,
Oyster mushroom is regarded as one of the commercially important edible mushrooms throughout the world. It consists of a number of different species including Pleurotus ostreatus, Pleurotus sajor-caju, […] The oyster mushroom is the second most important mushroom in production around the world, accounting for 25% of total world production of cultivated mushrooms.
text: Oyster mushrooms (Fig. 4.1) are the most suitable fungal organisms for producing protein-rich food from various agro-wastes without composting.[…]Pleorotus mushrooms irrespective of the particular species are generally referred to as "oyster mushrooms".
ref: 2010, Ramesh Chandra Upadhyay, Manjit Singh, “4: Production of Edible Mushrooms”, in Martin Hofrichter, editor, Industrial Applications, page 84:
glosses: Any of several mushrooms of the genus Pleurotus cultivated for food.
Synonyms: sense: mushroom of genus Pleurotus
word: abalone mushroom
sense: mushroom of genus Pleurotus
word: tree oyster
sense: mushroom of genus Pleurotus
word: woods oyster
Hypernyms: english: mushroom that grows on wood
translation: mushroom that grows on wood
word: tree mushroom
oyster farm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oyster farms
Senses: glosses: A place where oysters are raised for human consumption.
freebee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freebees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of freebie.
refueling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refuelling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refuel
refueling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refuelings
form: refuelling
Senses: glosses: The act of providing or taking on more fuel
peach blossom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peach blossoms
head_nr: 1
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: The flower of a peach tree that will eventually turn into a peach.
head_nr: 1
hypernyms: drepanid
glosses: Thyatira batis, a species of moth.
head_nr: 1
glosses: A pink colour with a yellowish tinge.
Related terms: apple blossom
cherry blossom
orange blossom
plum blossom
mandibular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /manˈdɪb.jʊl.ə/
ipa: /mænˈdɪb.jəl.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɪbjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Latin mandibula + -ar. By surface analysis, mandible + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: The head produces a mandibular gland pheromone composed of ketones, the thorax lacks large glands, and the abdomen contains the venom and the Nasonov gland that produces lemon oil compounds.
ref: 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 28:
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
synonyms: mandibulary
glosses: Of or pertaining to the mandible.
Derived terms: branchiomandibular
buccomandibular
cerebrocostomandibular
circummandibular
coracomandibular
craniomandibular
hemimandibular
hyomandibular
hypomandibular
inframandibular
intermandibular
intramandibular
mandibular artery
mandibular canal
mandibular nerve
mandibular pheromone
mandibulo-
maxillomandibular
micromandibular
musculomandibular
nonmandibular
oromandibular
otomandibular
perimandibular
postmandibular
premandibular
preoperculomandibular
queen mandibular pheromone
retromandibular
sphenomandibular
stylomandibular
submandibular
temporomandibular
transmandibular
tympanomandibular
Related terms: mandibulary
mandibulate
mandibulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Late Latin mandibula + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Provided with mandibles adapted for biting, as many insects.
Derived terms: emandibulate
mandibulate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mandibulates
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Mandibulata.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Any arthropod of the clade Mandibulata, comprising the arthropods with mandibles.
mandibulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mandibulates
form: mandibulating
form: mandibulated
form: mandibulated
Etymology: From Late Latin mandibula + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To handle material using mandibles (or, in the case of birds, the bill).
Derived terms: mandibulation
mandibuliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mandibula + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a mandible; said especially of the maxillae of an insect when hard and adapted for biting.
mandibulohyoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mandibulo- + hyoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining both to the mandibular and the hyoid arch
examples: text: mandibulohyoid ligament
text: mandibulohyoid muscle
glosses: Situated between the mandibular and the hyoid arch
submissions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of submission
mandil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmændɪl/
Forms: form: mandils
form: mundil
Etymology: From Arabic مَنْدِيل (mandīl, “sash; turban cloth; handkerchief”), already borrowed before Islam from Byzantine Greek μανδίλιον (mandílion), μαντίλιον (mantílion), μανδήλη (mandḗlē, “cloth; hand towel; handkerchief; tablecloth”) (the last word found in an Egyptian papyrus dated to 481 AD), from Latin mantēlium, mantēle (“hand towel, napkin”), probably from manus (“hand”) + tergere (“to rub, wipe, wipe off; to clean”). Compare French mendil (“turban, turban cloth”) (1659; translating German Mendil from a 1656 source).
Senses: examples: text: His turban, or mandil [mandīl], was of finest white silk interwoven with gold, bestudded with pearl[s] and carbuncles; [...]
ref: 1634, Thomas Herbert, A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. Into Afrique and the Greater Asia, especially the Territories of the Persian Monarchie: And some Parts of the Orientall Indies, and Iles Adiacent. […], London: Printed by William Stansby, and Iacob Bloome, →OCLC; republished as William Foster, editor, Travels in Persia 1627–1629. Abridged and Edited by Sir William Foster … with an Introduction and Notes (Broadway Travellers), London: G[eorge] Routledge & Sons, 1928, →OCLC, page 79:
text: MANDIL, the Name of a Cap or Turban wore by the Perſians. The Mandil is formed, by firſt wrapping round the Head a Piece of fine white Linen five or six Ells long; over this they wrap, in the ſame manner, a Piece of Silk of the ſame Length, and oftentimes of great Value. To make the Mandil genteel, Care muſt be taken, that in wrapping the Silk, it be ſo managed, as that the ſeveral Colours, found in the ſeveral Folds, make a kind of Waves, ſomewhat like what we see in marbled Paper.
ref: 1728, E[phraim] Chambers, “MANDIL”, in Cyclopædia: Or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […] In Two Volumes, volumes II (I–Z), London: […] James and John Knapton [et al.], →OCLC, page 492, column 2:
text: [T]he Mandíl is used by officers in the army, and is a muslin turban with gold stripes, spots, and ends.
ref: 1874, H[enry] H[ardy] Cole, “Textile Fabrics”, in Catalogue of the Objects of Indian Art Exhibited in the South Kensington Museum […], London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswode, […] [a]nd sold by Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 243:
text: Two inhabitants of the country on either side of the cartouche [of a map] represent the native population. On the left, a moustachioed nobleman, wearing a cloak and mandil (turban) grasps the cartouche with his right hand, and with his left holds up a bowl.
ref: 2015, Willem Floor, Edmund Herzig, editors, Iran and the World in the Safavid Age (International Library of Iranian Studies; 2), London; New York, N.Y.: I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation, →ISBN, page 296:
qualifier: chiefly Persia
glosses: A turban; cloth used to make a turban.
wikipedia: Florence
Ismail I
Safavid dynasty
Shah of Iran
Uffizi
Related terms: mandilla
mandylion
mantilla
Mandingo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandinka Mandinka. Compare French mandingue, from the same source.
Senses: glosses: A macrolanguage spoken primarily in West Africa, with seven individual languages: Mandinka, Eastern Maninkakan, Forest Maninka, Kita Maninkakan, Konyanka Maninka, Sankaran Maninka, Western Maninkakan.
Mandingo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mandingos
form: Mandingoes
Etymology: From Mandinka Mandinka. Compare French mandingue, from the same source.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Mandinka people.
examples: text: There are like these women who harbor these psychological fantasies, where they want to be—you know fucked by like a big, strapping, muscled sort of black man with like a gigantic Mandingo dick—like you know that fantasy?
ref: 2012, Rebecca Ann Rugg, Harvey Young, Reimagining A Raisin in the Sun: Four New Plays, Northwestern University Press, page 379:
text: The Italian wasn’t the black, bulging, big-cocked mandingo that she had read about in Mistress of Falconhurst, but his skin was a little dark so he’d do.
ref: 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), pages 288–289:
text: “But when most people think of Mandingo, they think of...?” “A nigga with a big dick,” Vertigo cut in.
ref: 2015, Jazz Jordan, Lust & Hip Hop, Platinum Life Publishing:
glosses: A black man with a large penis.
mandlestone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mandlestones
Etymology: Compare German Mandel (“almond”).
Senses: glosses: The amygdaloid.
heather-bell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heather-bells
Senses: examples: text: The Phoenicians slept under their piled grey rocks; the chimneys of the old mines pointed starkly; early moths blurred the heather-bells; cartwheels could be heard grinding on the road beneath; and the suck and sighing of the waves sounded gently, persistently, for ever.
ref: 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 171
synonyms: heath-bell
glosses: a plant of species Erica cinerea native to western and central Europe,; bell heather
sand-martin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand-martins
Senses: examples: text: But the red light was on the columns of the Parthenon, and the Greek women who were knitting their stockings and sometimes crying to a child to come and have the insects picked from its head were as jolly as sand-martins in the heat, quarrelling, scolding, suckling their babies, until the ships in the Piraeus fired their guns.
ref: 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 172
glosses: a migratory passerine bird in the swallow family.
amygdaloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀμυγδάλη (amugdálē, “almond”) + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like an almond
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the amygdala
amygdaloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amygdaloids
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀμυγδάλη (amugdálē, “almond”) + -oid.
Senses: glosses: A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, especially agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.
Synonyms: mandlestone
Derived terms: amygdaloidal
corticoamygdaloid
intramygdaloid
mesoamygdaloid
periamygdaloid
subamygdaloid
amygdaloidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdəl
Forms: form: more amygdaloidal
form: most amygdaloidal
Etymology: From amygdaloid + -al.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like an almond
glosses: Of, like or pertaining to, the amygdaloid mineral.
amylaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æmɪˈleɪʃəs/
rhymes: -eɪʃəs
Etymology: From Latin amylum (“starch”) + -aceous.
Senses: examples: text: amylaceous grain
text: amylaceous particle
text: amylaceous substance
glosses: Pertaining to, or of the nature of, starch; starchy.
amylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amylates
Etymology: From amyl + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound of the radical amyl with oxygen and a positive atom or radical.
hunting-crop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hunting-crops
form: hunting crop
Senses: examples: text: Bonamy took up a bill for a hunting-crop.
ref: 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 173
text: "Even in his most temperate moments he is constantly felling people with a hunting-crop."
ref: 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 19:
glosses: A hunting whip, without a thong, that can be used for opening gates.
amylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amylenes
Etymology: From amyl + -ene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: pentene.
glosses: A colorless, volatile, mobile liquid consisting of a mixture of different isomers of this hydrocarbon.
Derived terms: word: diamylene
word: isoamylene
alt: eicosene
word: metamylene
alt: decene
word: paramylene
amylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From amyl + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: amylic alcohol
text: amylic fermentation
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or derived from, amyl
amylolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to amylolysis
Derived terms: nonamylolytic
viscoamylolytic
amylolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amylolytics
Senses: glosses: Such a microbe or enzyme
amylose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amyloses
Etymology: From amyl- + -ose.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The soluble form of starch (the insoluble form being amylopectin) that is a linear polymer of glucose.
Coordinate terms: amylopectin
Related terms: amylase
amylin
amyloid
rollerblade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹoʊlɚˌbleɪd/
Forms: form: rollerblades
form: roller-blade
form: roller blade
Etymology: From Rollerblade, a trademark for a brand of inline skates, from roller + blade.
Senses: glosses: A roller skate with all wheels aligned in a single row along the sole, resembling an ice skate.
Synonyms: in-line skate
inline skate
rollerblade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹoʊlɚˌbleɪd/
Forms: form: rollerblades
form: rollerblading
form: rollerbladed
form: rollerbladed
form: roller-blade
form: roller blade
Etymology: From Rollerblade, a trademark for a brand of inline skates, from roller + blade.
Senses: glosses: To roller skate using rollerblades.
Related terms: rollerblader
outargue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /aʊtˈɑːɡjuː/
ipa: /aʊtˈɑɹɡju/
Forms: form: outargues
form: outarguing
form: outargued
form: outargued
form: out-argue
Etymology: From out- + argue.
Senses: glosses: To argue better than; to defeat in argument.
transcripts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transcript
transcripts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transcript
anticking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of antic
coverings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of covering
high as a kite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: When I'm out walking, I strut my stuff / Yeah, and I'm so strung out / I'm high as a kite, I just might / Stop to check you out
ref: 1983, Gordon Gano, “Blister in the Sun”, in Violent Femmes, performed by Violent Femmes:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very much under the influence of drugs; extremely high.
Synonyms: stoned
drunk
Related terms: higher than a kite
chants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chant
chants
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chant
soursops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soursop
footlights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footlight
footlight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footlights
form: foot-light
Etymology: From foot + light.
Senses: examples: text: Blinded to the astonishment of a thousand spectators by the force of the footlights, [Derek] Jacobi realised he'd dried.
ref: 2024 June 1, John Phipps, “The lamentable true history of the Red Hamlet”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 18:
glosses: A stage light located at the front edge of the stage that illuminates the actors from foot level up.
Hypernyms: light
Derived terms: footlighted
trueness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English treunesse, trewenesse, from Old English trēownes, equivalent to true + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian trouwens (“trueness, faithfulness, fidelity”).
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being true.
glosses: Loyalty; faithfulness; constancy.
Related terms: truth
truthness
verity
mole rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mole rats
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mole-rat.
Derived terms: blind mole rat
naked mole rat
floristics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The scientific study of the distribution of plants, especially on the regional level.
Related terms: flora
Flora
floristic
phytogeography
differentiates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of differentiate
basis point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basis points
Senses: examples: text: Triggered by a sell-off of Treasury bonds, the 10-year bond yield jumped by 17.2 basis points, briefly hitting 4.5%, the biggest hike in a year. The 30-year yield rose by 20 basis points, a one-day hike not seen since 2020, when pandemic panic set in.
ref: 2025 April 11, Laurent Belsie, “Tariff chaos tests the status of Treasury bonds as a haven of safety”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
topics: business
finance
glosses: One hundredth of one percentage point.
Synonyms: alt: ‱
word: permyriad
Related terms: percentage point
maxillary sinus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maxillary sinuses
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: antrum of Highmore
glosses: A paranasal sinus found in the body of the maxilla.
good as gold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: In the sense of high and enduring value, with literal origins in trade (currency exchange and barter), where any given currency or commodity may be worth as much as gold or hyperbolically described as such.
Senses: synonyms: goldlike
glosses: Of high and enduring value.
raw_tags: of an asset
examples: text: But to be sure baby was as good as gold, a perfect little dote in his new fancy bib.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very well-behaved (especially of a child); very good-hearted (especially of an adult).
raw_tags: of a person
as far as one knows
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: John could be dead as far as I know.
synonyms: to one's knowledge
glosses: To the best of one's knowledge, as far as someone knows or possible information to be gathered about the topic, subject, aspect, or situation.
Hyponyms: AFAIK
Related terms: as far as
barbecued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more barbecued
form: most barbecued
Senses: examples: text: On recollecting myself, I diſcovered that I had almoſt reached the entrance of the lagoon, and determined to venture in, if poſſible, to take a few fiſh, […] I ſoon caught more trout than I had preſent occaſion for, and the air was too hot and ſultry to admit of their being kept for many hours, even though ſalted or barbecued.
ref: 1793 January, William Bartram, “Art. II. Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws. Containing an Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions; together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. Embellished with Copper Plates. By William Bartram. Re-printed from the Philadelphia Edition. 8vo. pp. 520. 7s. 6d. boards. Johnson. 1792.”, in The Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal, Enlarged, volume X, London: Printed for R[alph] Griffiths; and sold by T[homas] Becket, in Pall Mall, published 1794, →OCLC, page 17:
glosses: Cooked on a barbecue.
Derived terms: nonbarbecued
unbarbecued
barbecued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of barbecue
Leeward Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Called leeward because the prevailing winds in the area blow from east to west. Thus, the Leeward Islands are downwind, or leeward of, the easternmost Windward Islands, the group of islands that first meet the trade winds coming from the east.
Senses: glosses: The northern of the Lesser Antilles, consisting of the islands or nations of the Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Saint Martin, Saint-Barthélemy, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Saint Kitts, Nevis, Barbuda, Antigua, Montserrat and Guadeloupe.
glosses: The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
Related terms: Windward Islands
Leeward Antilles
Windward Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Called windward because the prevailing winds in the area blow from east to west. Thus, the easternmost Windward Islands are upwind of the Leeward Islands, and are the islands of the Lesser Antilles that first meet the trade winds coming from the east.
Senses: glosses: The southern islands of the Lesser Antilles, composed of the island nations of Dominica, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago.
Related terms: Leeward Islands
Virgin Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Virgin Islands
Etymology: Named by Christopher Columbus after Saint Ursula and her virgin followers.
Senses: glosses: An archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, comprising the British Virgin Islands and the United States Virgin Islands.
wikipedia: Christopher Columbus
Saint Ursula
Synonyms: word: VI
word: V.I.
word: V. I.
Derived terms: British Virgin Islands
Dutch Virgin Islands
Puerto Rican Virgin Islands
Spanish Virgin Islands
United States Virgin Islands
Virgin Islander
Virgin Islander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Virgin Islanders
Etymology: From Virgin Islands + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone from the Virgin Islands.
Hyponyms: British Virgin Islander
US Virgin Islander
coachmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coachman
riflemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rifleman
churchmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of churchman
loyalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: loyalizes
form: loyalizing
form: loyalized
form: loyalized
form: loyalise
Etymology: From loyal + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make (someone) loyal to a cause.
Related terms: loyalization
loyalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loyalisation
Etymology: From loyal + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process or result of loyalizing
Ebionitism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ebionitisms
Etymology: From Ebionite + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The system or doctrine of the Ebionites.
metanavigation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + navigation.
Senses: glosses: A means of navigating from one website to a related one
catch a cold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catches a cold
form: catching a cold
form: caught a cold
form: caught a cold
form: catch cold
Senses: glosses: To contract a cold.
examples: text: Don't catch a cold because of the state pension freeze.
ref: 2014 March 22, Rupert Jones, “Retiring abroad? Don't catch a cold because of the state pension freeze”, in The Guardian:
text: If the U.S. goes into recession in 2021, the rest of the world is expected to catch a cold.
ref: 2018 February 14, Gary Howes, “British Pound to Languish Below 1.10 vs. Euro as Recession Beckons in 2021 say Scandinavian Economists”, in Pound Sterling:
glosses: To encounter difficulties.
Related terms: catch one's death
couldn't catch a cold
XXL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: XXLs
Senses: topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
coordinate_terms: XXS
XS
S
M
L
XL
XLT
XXXL
glosses: Initialism of extra extra large (the manufactured size or an item of that size).
XXL
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
coordinate_terms: XXS
XS
S
M
L
XL
XLT
XXXL
glosses: Initialism of extra extra large (of the manufactured size).
XS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: XSs
Senses: topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
coordinate_terms: XXS
S
M
L
XL
XLT
XXL
XXXL
glosses: Initialism of extra small (the manufactured size or an item of that size).
XS
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
coordinate_terms: XXS
S
M
L
XL
XLT
XXL
XXXL
glosses: Initialism of extra small (of the manufactured size).
XXS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: XXSs
Senses: topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
coordinate_terms: XS
S
M
L
XL
XLT
XXL
XXXL
glosses: Initialism of extra extra small (the manufactured size or an item of that size).
XXS
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
coordinate_terms: XS
S
M
L
XL
XLT
XXL
XXXL
glosses: Initialism of extra extra small (of the manufactured size).
simples
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: See simple. As an interjection, “Simples!”, a humorous alteration of “Simple!”, was popularised as the broken-English catchphrase of a meerkat character in an advertising campaign for price comparison website comparethemarket.com.
Senses: examples: text: There is no potential for takeover of the state of Pakistan by a rag-tag bunch of trumped-up nobodies with battered guns, and therefore no threat to the west. simples!
ref: 2009 April 14, jamie powell, “Re: Satellite dish acquires wrong 'bird'”, in uk.tech.digital-tv (Usenet):
text: So you claim. So, put whatcha got on the table, or STFU. ¶ Simples.
ref: 2010 March 25, Mike Jones, "Re: And Jeremiah The Prophet Said:", in alt.talk.creationism and other newsgroups, Usenet
text: Look, the vast majority of F1 viewers don't have HD TV. There for the numbers don't add up. When they do, you will have your HD TV. Simples.
ref: 2010 August 10, AC, “Re: HD coverage of the Nascar Race and Indy car races makes the F1 coverage look like Crap”, in rec.autos.sport.f1 (Usenet):
text: Controversial plans to replace appointed peers with elected senators, longed for by the Lib Dems, were seemingly given a new berth among the leftovers of Sam Cam's veg box. Simples!
ref: 2013 August 4, Matthew Bell, “It's a very good 17 days to bury bad news”, in The Independent, London:
text: Most things will go through on the nod. Simples. Everything will be fixed by Christmas.
ref: 2016 July 4, John Crace, “Up really is down on Mummy Leadsom's amazing journey”, in The Guardian, London:
text: Finally, the right hon. Gentleman talked about uncertainty: the uncertainty of not having the arrangements in place. If he wants to end uncertainty and if he wants to deal with the issues he raised in his response to my statement, then he should vote for a deal—simples.
ref: 2019 February 26, Theresa May, “Leaving the European Union”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons), column 173:
text: So, here's a bit of advice that I am sure she will not take: simply redeploy the lot of them, merge Network Rail with the train operators, call it British Railways, give it a set budget, and then let Andrew Haines and his colleagues get on with it. Simples.
ref: 2022 September 21, Christian Wolmar, “Trevelyan must 'give a damn' and engage with the railway”, in RAIL, number 966, page 45:
glosses: Indicating that something is easy to do or to understand.
simples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See simple. As an interjection, “Simples!”, a humorous alteration of “Simple!”, was popularised as the broken-English catchphrase of a meerkat character in an advertising campaign for price comparison website comparethemarket.com.
Senses: glosses: plural of simple
simples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See simple. As an interjection, “Simples!”, a humorous alteration of “Simple!”, was popularised as the broken-English catchphrase of a meerkat character in an advertising campaign for price comparison website comparethemarket.com.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of simple
manos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mano
couvert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: couverts
Etymology: Borrowed from French couvert.
Senses: examples: text: Earl Carroll's Theater-Restaurant, 6230 Sunset Blvd. Dinner from 7:30 to 11 p.m., no couvert; without dinner, admission charge.
ref: 1941, Federal Writers' Project, Los Angeles: A Guide to the City and Its Environs:
text: […] the habit of hotel restaurants charging a couvert to residents, and of clubs charging table money to their own members.
ref: 1965, The Spectator:
text: The couvert is a “cover charge” that is a prima facie charge for bread, which is brought to the table automatically in most places.
ref: 2010, Karen Torme Olson, Frommer's Croatia:
glosses: cover charge