cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
spring beauty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spring beauties
form: springbeauty
Senses: examples: text: On the lane below, more orangetips nectared on spring beauties and violets.
ref: 2010, Robert Michael Pyle, Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year, page 123:
glosses: Any of various species of flowering plant of the genus Claytonia, primarily native to the Americas and northeastern Asia.
glosses: A small American butterfly, the early hairstreak (Erora laeta), which appears in spring. The hind wings of the male are brown, bordered with deep blue; those of the female are mostly blue.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Claytonia megarhiza
word: alpine spring beauty
taxonomic: Claytonia arctica
word: Arctic spring beauty
taxonomic: Claytonia tuberosa
word: Beringian spring beauty
taxonomic: Claytonia saxosa
word: Brandegee's spring beauty
taxonomic: Claytonia caroliniana
word: Carolina spring beauty
taxonomic: Claytonia virginica
word: eastern spring beauty
taxonomic: Claytonia umbellata
word: Great Basin spring beauty
taxonomic: Claytonia gypsophiloides
word: gypsum spring beauty
taxonomic: Claytonia cordifolia
word: heartleaf spring beauty
taxonomic: Claytonia palustris
word: Jonesville spring beauty
taxonomic: Claytonia lanceolata
word: lanceleaf spring beauty
taxonomic: Claytonia rosea
word: Madrean spring beauty
taxonomic: Claytonia ogilviensis
word: Ogilvie Mountains spring beauty
taxonomic: Claytonia rubra
word: redstem spring beauty
taxonomic: Claytonia rosea
word: Rocky Mountain spring beauty
taxonomic: Claytonia exigua
word: serpentine spring beauty
taxonomic: Claytonia sibirica
word: Siberian spring beauty
taxonomic: Claytonia nevadensis
word: Sierra spring beauty
taxonomic: Claytonia spp.
word: springbeauty
taxonomic: Claytonia tuberosa
word: tuberous spring beauty
taxonomic: Claytonia virginica
word: Virginia spring beauty
taxonomic: Claytonia lanceolata
word: western spring beauty
self-promotion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-promotions
Etymology: From self- + promotion.
Senses: examples: text: The resources channelled to those institutions which showed themselves most adept at formfilling, self-promotion and presentation were inadequate to sustain the quality they claimed.
ref: 1997, Eric J Evans, Thatcher and Thatcherism:
glosses: The purposeful act of presenting oneself to others in a favorable way, often viewed by others negatively as forceful, exaggerated, or self-indulgent.
Related terms: self-promote
self-promotional
scans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scan
scans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scan
spring-clean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spring-cleans
form: spring-cleaning
form: spring-cleaned
form: spring-cleaned
Etymology: Back-formation from spring-cleaning.
Senses: examples: text: The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home.
ref: 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 1:
glosses: To carry out spring-cleaning on (a room, a house, etc).
glosses: To engage in spring-cleaning.
Derived terms: spring-cleaner
spring-heeled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having, or seeming to have, springs on one's heels, and so able to jump much higher than usual.
Derived terms: spring-heeled Jack
spring-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spring-like
form: most spring-like
Senses: examples: text: The garden was in the first blush of spring-like beauty, and she felt the silent influence of the flowers upon her spirits.
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XIII, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 281:
glosses: Alternative spelling of springlike.
spring-loaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: sprung
text: A spring-loaded reducing valve, controllable from the cab, admitted h.p. steam to both h.p. and l.p. cylinders whenever necessary, as, for example, on starting; [...].
ref: 1961 Novermber, 'Voyageur', “The last of the Midland compounds”, in Trains Illustrated, page 675:
text: These spring-loaded seats are a bit harder and very snappy when you get off them.
ref: 2023 April 19, Pip Dunn, “Jack of all trades... and master of most”, in RAIL, number 981, page 56:
glosses: Of a mechanical device, containing a spring that holds a component in a particular position.
spring-loaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spring-load
Derived terms: spring-load
spring-loaded camming device
spring-loaded mode
retinopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛtɪnˈɑːpəθi/
Forms: form: retinopathies
Etymology: From retino- + -pathy.
Senses: examples: text: ‘I have diabetic retinopathy, monsieur.’
ref: 2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 116:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Non-inflammatory disease of the retina.
Derived terms: neuroretinopathy
Related terms: chorioretinopathy
preretinopathy
retinopathic
retinopathology
vitreoretinopathy
spring-release
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a mechanical device, containing a component that compresses or extends a spring while held in place and so springs free when released.
Derived terms: spring-release tin
residues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of residue
regionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regionalities
Etymology: From regional + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The party's regionality prevented it from winning a national election.
glosses: The property of being regional.
navigates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of navigate
navigated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of navigate
spring water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spring waters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of springwater.
spring-water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spring-waters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of springwater.
indentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indentation
butting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌtɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈbʌɾɪŋ]
homophone: budding
rhymes: -ʌtɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of butt
butting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌtɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈbʌɾɪŋ]
homophone: budding
rhymes: -ʌtɪŋ
Forms: form: buttings
Senses: examples: text: Without buttings or boundings on any side.
ref: 1709, William Beveridge, The Being, Love, and Other Attributes of God:
glosses: An abuttal; a boundary.
butting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌtɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈbʌɾɪŋ]
homophone: budding
rhymes: -ʌtɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of but
butting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌtɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈbʌɾɪŋ]
homophone: budding
rhymes: -ʌtɪŋ
Forms: form: buttings
Senses: examples: text: […] when they grew up to adolescent muttonhood, it required all the prowess and interference of the papa sheep to prevent them from breaking each other's skulls by their constant tiltings and buttings.
ref: 1841, Joseph Hewlett, Theodore Edward Hook, The Parish Clerk (volume 1, page 59)
glosses: The act of delivering a butt with the head.
unordered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ordered.
Senses: examples: unordered goods
glosses: Not having been ordered.
examples: an unordered list
glosses: Not in any sorted order.
'd better
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: You'd better slow down. The police are behind us.
text: But you'd better take your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe.
ref: 1965, Bob Dylan, “Like a Rolling Stone”:
glosses: Contraction of had better.
Derived terms: you'd better believe it
substitutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of substitution
registrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of registration
duodenal ulcer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duodenal ulcers
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A peptic ulcer located in the duodenum.
handbasket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handbaskets
Etymology: From hand + basket.
Senses: examples: text: I have always wondered how the world, which is very large, can fit into something as small as a handbasket. To deepen my confusion, I’m not even sure I know what a handbasket is. Aren’t all baskets in fact handbaskets, and if they are, isn’t the prefix hand wholly unnecessary? We should probably say: “The world is going to hell in a basket,” although that sounds even worse, doesn’t it?
ref: 2013, Paul Auster, Here and Now: Letters (2008–2011), page 182:
glosses: A basket with a handle.
Derived terms: to hell in a handbasket
to heck in a handbasket
basket hilt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basket hilts
Senses: glosses: A style of sword hilt with a covering wrought like basketwork, to surround and protect the hand.
respiratory system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: respiratory systems
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The system of organs serving for respiration.
Synonyms: word: respiratory system
Hypernyms: word: organ system
Meronyms: word: upper respiratory tract
word: lower respiratory tract
word: nose
word: nasal cavity
word: pharynx
word: larynx
word: trachea
word: airway
word: bronchus
word: bronchiole
word: lung
word: alveolus
upspring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌpˈspɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: upsprings
form: upspringing
form: upsprang
form: upsprung
form: upsprung
Etymology: From Middle English upspringen, from Old English uppspringan, ūpspringan, equivalent to up- + spring.
Senses: examples: text: In diamond light upspring the dazzling peaks Of Pyramids
ref: 1829, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Timbuctoo:
text: Might not its waters upspring in this new land, whose discovery was the great marvel of the age, and which men looked upon as the unknown east of Asia?
ref: 1879, Charles Morris, Historical Tales:
glosses: To spring up, rise up, originate, come into being.
Synonyms: sense: spring up
word: spring
word: spring up
word: sprout
word: arise
word: be born
word: come into existence
word: come into being
Derived terms: upspringing
upsprung
upspring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌpˈspɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈʌpspɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ʌpˈspɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: upsprings
Etymology: From Middle English upspring, upspringe, from Old English upspring (“origin, birth, rising up, springing up”), equivalent to up- + spring. Cognate with Old Saxon upspring (“well; source; spring”), Middle Low German upspringen (“to spring up; grow”).
Senses: glosses: A spring or leap into the air.
glosses: origin
Synonyms: word: parvenu
word: upstart
sense: a spring or leap into the air
word: bound
sense: a spring or leap into the air
word: jump
sense: a spring or leap into the air
word: leap
sense: a spring or leap into the air
word: spring
Derived terms: upspring reel
outspring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outsprings
form: outspringing
form: outsprang
form: outsprung
Etymology: Verb: from Middle English outspringen, equal to out- + spring.
Senses: glosses: To spring out.
Derived terms: outspringing
outspring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Verb: from Middle English outspringen, equal to out- + spring.
Senses: glosses: The outcome, result, or issue.
gastric ulcer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastric ulcers
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A peptic ulcer located in the stomach.
esophageal ulcer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esophageal ulcers
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A peptic ulcer located at esophagus.
fergusonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fergusonites
Etymology: From Ferguson + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A mineral composed of oxides of various rare earth elements.
springer spaniel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: springer spaniels
Senses: glosses: A dog of either of two different breeds (the English springer spaniel and the Welsh springer spaniel).
Synonyms: springer
Derived terms: English springer spaniel
Welsh springer spaniel
spring up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: springs up
form: springing up
form: sprang up
form: sprung up
Senses: examples: text: A breeze had sprung up, pushing the ship back within range of the Spanish cannons.
glosses: To appear suddenly.
examples: text: In 1924 the Hashemite King Hussein was driven out of the Hedjaz by Ibn Saud, and a state of war sprang up between the new kingdoms of Saudi Arabia and Trans-Jordan.
ref: 1956 March, R. C. Blaker, “The Hedjaz Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 167:
text: In the 1890s and in the early years of the present century there was considerable building development in the area around Sanderstead, Warlingham and Oxted, where large villas were springing up. East Grinstead, Tunbridge Wells and Uckfield were growing fast, as was that loosely knit "subtopia"—neither town, village nor country—which is known collectively as Crowborough.
ref: 1960 November, H. P. White, “The evolution of train services on the Southern's Oxted line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 662:
text: The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: To come rapidly into existence.
Synonyms: sense: to appear suddenly
word: pop up
sense: to come rapidly into existence
word: upspring
word: come into being
Derived terms: spring up like mushrooms
springer-up
you pays your money and you takes your choice
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: you pays your nickel and you takes your choice
Senses: examples: text: You can get there by bus, or train, or taxi. Whatever. You pays your money and you takes your choice.
text: Showman. On your right you will perceive a Prime Minister a Bolishing of hisself. And over your left is another Prime Minister a Bolishing of the Corn-Laws. / Master John Bull. But which is the Prime Minister? / Showman. Which ever you please, my little dear. You pays your money, and you takes your choice.
ref: 1846, “THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS.[cartoon]”, in Punch, page 17:
glosses: Each person can make his or her own decisions.
Related terms: to each his own
you get what you pay for
you pays your money and you takes your chances
incipients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incipient
exhumers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exhumer
Napoleonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəˌpoʊliˈɒnɪk/
enpr: nə.pō'.lē.ŏnʹ.ĭk
Forms: form: Napoléonic
Etymology: From Napoleon + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Napoleonic Wars
text: A half-burned cigar rolled between his mobile lips, he sat on the back of his neck, and yet he had an air Napoleonic; Nietzschean, it might better be said—although it is safe to assert that these moulders of American institutions knew little about that terrible philosopher who had raised his voice against the “slave morals of Christianity.”
ref: 1917, Winston Churchill, The Dwelling-Place of Light, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 341:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Napoleon Bonaparte.
glosses: Suffering from Napoleon complex.
glosses: Having to do with the Napoleonic Wars.
Derived terms: Napoleonically
factitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfæktɪtɪv/
Etymology: From Latin factitāre, from factus, perfect passive participle of facere + -itāre.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Taking a complement that expresses a result along with a direct object, or inherently implying a complement; or synonymous with causative.
raw_tags: of a verb
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Factive.
raw_tags: of a verb
Derived terms: factitively
factive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æktɪv
Etymology: From fact + -ive.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
antonyms: contrafactive
coordinate_terms: factual
counterfactual
glosses: Licensing only those content clauses that represent claims that are (known or believed with certainty to be) true.
raw_tags: of a verb
topics: epistemology
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Which does not know any falsities: which knows only truths.
raw_tags: of a knowing agent
Derived terms: abortifactive
benefactive
contrafactive
factively
factiveness
factivity
malefactive
nonfactive
factive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æktɪv
Forms: form: factives
Etymology: From fact + -ive.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A factive verb.
factive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æktɪv
Etymology: From New Latin factīvus, from Latin facere (“to make”).
Senses: glosses: Making; creative.
baby sitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby sitters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of babysitter.
wottest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Here, as Genevieve sat musing, in apparent slumber, on her situation of peril, and her hope of liberty, her sentinels, who had hitherto walked at a surly distance from her, now chanced to pass nearer; and she heard one of them say, “She sleeps, thou need'st not whisper; -I tell thee it must be done to-night.” “What must be done?” said his companion, “for hitherto thou hast spoken thy purpose darkly.”—“The queen must be removed this night,” said the other. “Here have been missives from the bishop, who, amid the thunders of the siege, found leisure to receive and answer the letters of King Philip, touching the matter of the queen's thraldom, and to send the order thou wottest of, and which must be suddenly obeyed.”
ref: 1824, Charles Robert Maturin, The Albigenses, chapter 16
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of wit, wot, wott, and wotte
wistest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: wist + -est.
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of wit
LORD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See lord and Lord.
Senses: examples: text: O Lord our Lord [translating יְהוָ֤ה אֲדֹנֵ֗ינוּ (y'hvh 'adonéinu)], how meruelous is thy name in the whole earth! Becauſe thy magnificence is eleuated, aboue the heauens.
ref: 1610, The Second Tome of the Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Psalmes 8:2, page 26:
text: And the LORD God [translating יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהִ֔ים (y'hvh 'elohím)] ſaid, It is not good that the man ſhould be alone: I will make him an helpe meet for him.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 2:18, column 1:
text: And the LORD [translating יְהוָה֙ (y'hvh)] ſaid vnto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And hee ſaid, I know not: Am I my brothers keeper?
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 4:9, column 2:
text: Then ſaid Dauid to the Philiſtine, Thou commeſt to mee with a ſword, and with a ſpeare, and with a ſhield: but I come to thee in the Name of the LORD of hoſtes [translating יְהוָ֣ה צְבָאֹ֔ות (y'hvh ts'va'oth)], the God of the armies of Iſrael, whom thou haſt defied.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 17:45, column 2:
glosses: Typographical variant of Lord, particularly in English translations of the Bible.
neutron drip line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neutron drip lines
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The jagged line, on a chart showing the number of protons and neutrons of all known isotopes, beyond which neutron-rich nuclei are unstable and emit neutrons.
neutron-rich
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: neutron-richer
form: more neutron-rich
form: neutron-richest
form: most neutron-rich
Senses: qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: Having a large ratio of neutrons to protons
raw_tags: of a nucleus or isotope
supersolid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supersolids
Etymology: From super- + solid.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A superfluid material that has a spatially ordered structure similar to a crystal.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An analogue in a space of four or more dimensions of a solid in three dimensions.
meristematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the meristem
Derived terms: meristematically
nonmeristematic
promeristematic
misfolded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misfold
misfolded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misfolded
form: most misfolded
Senses: qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: folded into an incorrect tertiary structure
raw_tags: of a protein or nucleic acid
all wool and a yard wide
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: about 1900, O. Henry, The Missing Chord
And that was the piano that Uncle Cal had selected; and standing by it was the good, fine, all-wool girl that never let him know it.
glosses: Of high quality.
all-outer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: all-outers
Etymology: From all-out + -er.
Senses: glosses: An extremist or radical.
all over oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Then the Frogs surrounded this Rabbit, an' they re-captured the skull, an' the Rabbits charged with ambition, an' the Frogs passed to the left, an' there was old Leapin' Frog himself, grinnin' all over himself with his club reached out a-puntin' the skull along like sixty-seven.
ref: 1939, Boys' Life - Jan 1939, page 25:
text: Anyway, the network tells me Ishaka is all over himself over his new baby, kissing and cuddling her and calling her every endearing name I didn't even know existed.
ref: 2003, Mary Karooro Okurut, The Official Wife, →ISBN, page 81:
text: Nowadays, UGA recruiters would be all over themselves to enroll three high-achieving African American students like Kerry Rushin Miller, Harold A. Black and Mary Blackwell Diallo.
ref: 2017 January 13, Lee Shearer, “UGA's first black freshmen — all three — recall what it was like”, in Athens Banner-Herald:
text: Those women lite up they were so excited they were all over themselves we did it girls we made the King happy and Diane to.
ref: 2013, Jesse S. Ward, My Lady and the Rogue, →ISBN:
glosses: Feeling self-satisfied.
ameling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of amel
amusia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amusias
Etymology: From Late Latin amusia, from Ancient Greek ἀμουσία (amousía, “without harmony”), from ἄμουσος (ámousos, “without song”). The Muses were nine daughters of Zeus and the goddesses of arts and sciences.
Senses: glosses: The inability to comprehend or respond to music.
Derived terms: amusic
amurca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amurcas
Etymology: From Latin amurca.
Senses: glosses: The sediment in olive oil.
Related terms: oil cake
hollow-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hollow-eyed
form: most hollow-eyed
Etymology: From hollow + eyed.
Senses: examples: text: His hollow-eyed visage showed he'd been tortured with fear.
glosses: Having sunken, dark ringed eyes demonstrative of fear or lack of sleep.
animalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: animalists
Etymology: From animal + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The animalist’s claim that all persons must be animals, if true, will have to be a posteriori truth.
ref: 2002, Brian Garrett, Personal Identity and Self-Consciousness, Routledge, →ISBN, page 21:
text: The hard question for the animalist is whether bodily continuity is necessary for the survival of the animal and, if so, what kind of bodily continuity.
ref: 2011, Shaun Gallagher, The Oxford Handbook of the Self, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 145:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One who believes in the dominance of man's animal nature in behavior.
examples: text: Whether spiritualist or animalist, Baudelaire's representations of sexuality establish contradictions and raise questions that both exemplify the author's dualistic thinking and reveal the unravelling of antithesis in his work.
ref: 2015, Gretchen Schultz, Sapphic Fathers, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: A sensualist.
examples: text: And in my opinion, the reason we have so few good animalists among modern artists is because the domestication of species and man's development have obscured their deeper visual significance for most of us.
ref: 1927, Hamilton Easter Field, editor, The Arts, volume 11:
topics: art
arts
synonyms: animalier
glosses: A painter or sculptor whose primary subject is animals.
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: A writer of animal stories.
glosses: An animal liberationist.
glosses: One who believes that microorganisms cause disease.
Related terms: animalism
coverture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: covertures
form: couverture
Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Old French coverture, from covrir (“to cover”) or from Late Latin coopertura. Doublet of couverture.
Senses: glosses: Concealing cover, disguise, veil; also figurative
examples: text: Note that voting by widows did not raise some of the concerns that might have arisen from voting by wives subject to common-law coverture servitude to their husbands.
ref: 2006, Akhil Reed Amar, America's Constitution: A Biography:
topics: law
glosses: A common law doctrine developed in England during the Middle Ages, whereby a woman's legal existence, upon marriage, was subsumed by that of her husband, particularly with regard to ownership of property and protection.
glosses: Alternative spelling of couverture.
examples: text: URSULA. The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish
Cut with her golden oars the silver stream,
And greedily devour the treacherous bait:
So angle we for Beatrice; who even now
Is couched in the woodbine coverture.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
glosses: Shelter, hiding place.
Related terms: feme covert
safe house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safe houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of safehouse.
safe houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of safe house
regimentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regimentations
Etymology: From regiment + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: David hated the haircuts, the regimentation, the power plays and the "macho-male, heterosexual shop talk" of the military.
ref: 1980 August 30, Jil Clark, “Gays Talk About Registration and the Draft”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 9:
glosses: The act of regimenting.
reimbursable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reimburse + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Buying a souvenir during a business trip is not a reimbursable expense.
synonyms: recompensable
antonyms: nonreimbursable
unreimbursable
coordinate_terms: compensable#Adjective
remunerable#Adjective
refundable#Adjective
repayable#Adjective
glosses: Eligible for repayment, particularly for money spent or expenses incurred; qualifying for reimbursement.
reimbursable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reimbursables
Etymology: From reimburse + -able.
Senses: glosses: Something the expense for which can be reimbursed.
Related terms: compensable
consumable
repayable
remediable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈmidiəbəl/
Forms: form: more remediable
form: most remediable
Etymology: From Middle English remediable, from Old French remedïable and Latin remediābilis. By surface analysis, remediate + -able, or perhaps remedy + ‑able.
Senses: examples: text: Then from his cavernous armpit drew and gave The singing leaves, not such as erst I knew, But strange, disjointed, where the unmeasured feet Staggered allwhither in pursuit of rhyme, And could not find it; assonance instead, Cases and verbs misplaced—remediable those — Broad-shouldered coarseness, fondly meant for wit.
ref: 1955, Edmund Wilson, The shock of recognition, page 381:
glosses: Capable of being remedied.
remediless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛmədilɪs/
Etymology: From Middle English remedylesse; equivalent to remedy + -less.
Senses: examples: text: I driven am to great distresse, / And forced to forgoe th'attempt remedilesse.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: As for the rest, this disease is not so easily discovered, except it be altogether extreame and remedilesse; forasmuch as reason marcheth ever crooked, halting and broken-hipt; and with falshood as with truth; and therefore it is very hard to discover her mistaking and disorder.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: […] cannot be taken to mean that the petitioners have been left remediless.
ref: 2010, Pakistan Labour Cases, volume 51, page 55:
glosses: Not having a remedy; not capable of being remedied.
Derived terms: remedilessly
remedilessness
renomination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renominations
Etymology: From re- + nomination.
Senses: examples: text: The renomination of the controversial candidate was not received well.
glosses: The act of renominating, of nominating again.
renominations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of renomination
reparations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reparation
repatriation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repatriations
Etymology: Either a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin repatriātiō (“act of restoring someone to their homeland”) or from Italian repatriazione and remodelled after words in -ation. By surface analysis, repatriate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The process of returning of a person to their country of origin or citizenship.
glosses: The process of returning artworks, museum exhibits, etc. to their country of origin.
glosses: The process of converting a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country.
Derived terms: patriation
Related terms: repatriate
repatriations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repatriation
reproducer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reproducers
Etymology: From reproduce + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Local musicians were not just passive reproducers of the tradition.
ref: 2000, David Greer, Ian Rumbold, Jonathan King, Musicology and Sister Disciplines, page 304:
glosses: One who reproduces something.
glosses: In a phonograph, a device containing a sounding diaphragm and the needle or stylus that traverses the moving record, for reproducing the sound.
glosses: In a manograph, a device for reproducing the engine stroke on a reduced scale.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: A series of steps which reproduce a bug or other condition of interest.
reproducers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reproducer
reputability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reputabilitys
Etymology: From repute + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: His reputability was in question, if he couldn't prove he was reliable then no one would hire him again.
glosses: The property of being reputable, a person's reputation.
resubscribe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resubscribes
form: resubscribing
form: resubscribed
form: resubscribed
form: re-subscribe
Etymology: From re- + subscribe.
Senses: glosses: To subscribe again or renew a subscription.
reprehensibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more reprehensibly
form: most reprehensibly
Etymology: From reprehensible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a reprehensible manner.
republication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: republications
Etymology: From re- + publication.
Senses: examples: text: His republication of the old story restarted a furor that had quieted with time.
text: Pressman said that Ingraham’s segment “sparked a torrent of republications and copycat false charges” and was amplified by Trump on Twitter.
ref: 2019 November 20, Oliver Darcy, “Lawyer for impeachment witness Lt. Col Vindman demands Fox News retract ‘false and defamatory’ segment”, in CNN:
glosses: The act of publishing again.
examples: text: Germany's justice system has vowed that any republication or distribution of the original book without proper annotation is to remain illegal.
ref: 2016 January 1, Ben Brumfield, “Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' republished in Germany, on sale in bookstores”, in CNN:
glosses: A reprint or republished edition of a book, a will, etc.
republications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of republication
reprehensibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Humans also have an attitude toward fire ants as expertly expressed by Walter Tschinkel: “Most people hate fire ants without reservation, without reflection. Perhaps that is what the fire ant has to offer us—something we can all agree to hate, something about whose reprehensibility no argument can be made.”
ref: 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 63:
glosses: The property of being reprehensible.
revilement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revilements
Etymology: From revile + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of reviling.
revilements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revilement
reposeful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reposeful
form: most reposeful
Etymology: From repose + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: The reposeful, easy, affluent life to which her mother's marriage had introduced her was, in truth, the beginning of a great change in Elizabeth.
ref: 1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter XIV, in The Mayor of Casterbridge:
glosses: Providing repose, restful.
examples: text: What a strange yet pleasant day that was. So brilliant and gay without, for all the world seemed abroad to welcome the first snow. So quiet and reposeful within, for everyone slept, spent with watching, and a Sabbath stillness reigned through the house […]
ref: 1869, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, Part I, Chapter 20:
text: […] he showed in face that humane look of reposeful good nature which the Greek sculptor in some instances gave to his heroic strong man, Hercules.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 2, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
glosses: Having an appearance of repose, peaceful.
Derived terms: reposefully
reposefulness
renouncement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renouncements
Etymology: From Old French renoncement. By surface analysis, renounce + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: His renouncement of his previous position, once it had proved unpopular, did not help his candidacy.
glosses: The act of renouncing.
renouncements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of renouncement
regalement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈɡeɪlmənt/
Forms: form: regalements
Etymology: From regale + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of regaling.
regalements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regalement
reinsertion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reinsertions
Etymology: From re- + insertion.
Senses: glosses: The act of inserting again.
reinsertions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reinsertion
relive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈlɪv/
rhymes: -ɪv
Forms: form: relives
form: reliving
form: relived
form: relived
Etymology: From re- + live.
Senses: examples: text: I relive that horrible accident every night and wake screaming.
text: Replays in video games allow you to relive your greatest moments.
glosses: To experience (something) again; to live over again.
examples: text: Had she not beene devoide of mortall slime, / Shee should not then have bene relyv'd againe [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To bring back to life; to revive, resuscitate.
glosses: To come back to life.
Related terms: re-experience
reexperience
peacable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of peaceable.
beastiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of bestiality.
dunk tank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dunk tanks
Senses: glosses: A large tank of water, over which a dunk seat is suspended, which seat can be made to tip or fall into the tank of water, thus dunking whoever is sitting on the seat. It is used as an attraction mainly used in funfairs.
glosses: Any open-topped tank used for dunking.
Related terms: ducking stool
dunking booth
dunking machine
Robertson screw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Robertson screws
Etymology: From Canadian inventor P. L. Robertson (1879-1951).
Senses: glosses: A type of screw having a square recess in the head.
wikipedia: P. L. Robertson
Related terms: Robertson screwdriver
Robertson screwdriver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Robertson screwdrivers
Etymology: From Canadian inventor P. L. Robertson (1879-1951).
Senses: examples: text: The Robertson-head screw has a square hole in the head, made in three different sizes, and must be driven with a special Robertson screwdriver.
ref: 1963, Alonzo Wass, Building construction estimating:
text: The Robertson screwdriver is among the tools found at hardware stores and building supply outlets across Canada.
ref: 2002, Mark Kearney, Randy Ray, I Know that Name!: The People Behind Canada's Best-known Brand Names from Elizabeth Arden to Walter Zeller:
text: Robertson screwdrivers have colour-coded handles, to make it easy to determine which size you will require.
ref: 2007, William S. Peckham, Michael C. Hammar, Never Hang Wallpaper With Your Wife: Decorating and Renovating From a Guy's Point Of View:
glosses: A type of screwdriver having a square tip, designed to drive a Robertson screw.
Related terms: Robertson screw
overtrain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overtrains
form: overtraining
form: overtrained
form: overtrained
Etymology: From over- + train.
Senses: examples: text: Jim overtrained and found that he was exhausted by the time of the competition.
text: I think I've overtrained my leg muscles.
glosses: To train too much or too long.
unsuitably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unsuitably
form: most unsuitably
Etymology: From unsuitable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Dearly as he loved to talk, he could not enjoy nor shine in a conversation when he thought himself unsuitably dressed.
ref: 1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Samuel Pepys”, in Familiar Studies of Men & Books:
glosses: In an unsuitable manner.
untameable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untameable
form: most untameable
form: untamable
Etymology: From un- + tame + -able.
Senses: examples: text: “My lord,” said Mary, “it seems to me that you fling on my unhappy and devoted head those evils, which, with far more justice, I may impute to your own turbulent, wild, and untameable dispositions.”
ref: 1820, Walter Scott, chapter 22, in The Abbot:
text: Of all the carnivorous animals of the Archipelago the only one found in the Moluccas is Viverra tangalunga, which inhabits both Batchian and Bouru, and probably come of the other islands. I am inclined to think that this also may have been introduced accidentally, for it is often made captive by the Malays, who procure civet from it, and it is an animal very restless and untameable, and therefore likely to escape.
ref: 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, chapter 27, in The Malay Archipelago, volume II:
glosses: Incapable of being controlled, subdued, or tamed.
untamable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untamable
form: most untamable
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of untameable.
inner planet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inner planets
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
planets
antonyms: outer planet
glosses: Any planet of the Solar System whose orbit is located between the asteroid belt and the sun, i.e., any of Mercury, Venus, Earth, or Mars.
outer planet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outer planets
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
antonyms: inner planet
glosses: Any planet of the Solar System whose orbit is located beyond the asteroid belt, i.e., any of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune.
repudiator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repudiators
Etymology: From repudiate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who repudiates.
repudiators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repudiator
resalable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From re- + sale + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being resold.
refiner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refiners
Etymology: From refine + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The average motorist will not see much, if any, difference in gasoline pump price but oil producers and Gulf Coast refiners expect profits to improve.
ref: 2012 May 19, Bruce Nichols, “Seaway pipeline sends oil to Texas in historic reversal”, in Reuters:
text: You can think of a search refiner as a filter. Your search for a broad topic might return hundreds of possible results. The refiner allows you to filter this information down based on the configured criteria.
ref: 2016, Rosemarie Withee, Ken Withee, Jennifer Reed, Office 365 For Dummies, page 101:
glosses: One who, or that which, refines.
Derived terms: grain refiner
refiners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refiner
renegotiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renegotiations
Etymology: From re- + negotiation.
Senses: examples: text: The idea of offering to extend your lease, in the previous item, underscores a point that is often overlooked during renegotiations, Dee Gill writes in Inc.
ref: 2009 March 27, Paul B. Brown, “Nothing is Set in Stone, So Renegotiate”, in The New York Times:
text: Six weeks into the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the thorniest issues surrounding the pact remain unresolved.
ref: 2017 September 28, Ana Swanson, “How the Trump Administration Is Doing Renegotiating Nafta”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The act of negotiating again.
Related terms: renegotiate
hoofstock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hoof + stock.
Senses: glosses: Ruminants and members of the horse family.
evergreening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: intellectual-property
law
medicine
patent-law
pharmaceuticals
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The practice of slightly altering a drug to extend patent protections.
evergreening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of evergreen
evergreened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of evergreen
refashion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refashions
form: refashioning
form: refashioned
form: refashioned
Etymology: From re- + fashion.
Senses: examples: text: Subsequently, the GDR’s antifascist tradition would be diluted, distorted, and refashioned into an ahistorical national origins myth in which the citizens of East Germany were officially proclaimed the “victors of history,” but where little space remained for the real and complicated history, not to mention ambivalent role of Stalinized Communism, behind it.
ref: 2017 May 24, Loren Balhorn, “The Lost History of Antifa”, in Jacobin Magazine:
glosses: To fashion again or anew.
referable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of referrable.
reformative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reformative
form: most reformative
Senses: glosses: That serves to reform or correct
reformulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reformulations
Etymology: From re- + formulation.
Senses: glosses: The act of formulating anew.
glosses: A new formulation.
regeneracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regeneracies
Etymology: From regenerate + -cy?
Senses: glosses: The condition of being regenerated.
regenerative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more regenerative
form: most regenerative
Etymology: From Middle French régénératif.
Senses: glosses: That serves to regenerate.
glosses: Being a kind of circuit, much used in radio receivers, that allows an electronic signal to be amplified many times through a feedback loop.
Derived terms: bioregenerative
cardioregenerative
hyperregenerative
hyporegenerative
macroregenerative
neuroregenerative
nonregenerative
osteoregenerative
proregenerative
regenerative braking
regenerative furnace
regeneratively
regenerative medicine
regenerative thermal oxidizer
superregenerative
unregenerative
vasoregenerative
rehung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rehang
Related terms: rehanged
reincorporate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reincorporates
form: reincorporating
form: reincorporated
form: reincorporated
Etymology: From re- + incorporate.
Senses: glosses: To incorporate again or in a different manner
reincorporation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reincorporations
Etymology: From re- + incorporation.
Senses: glosses: The act of reincorporating.
glosses: The condition of being reincorporated.
reintegrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reintegrates
form: reintegrating
form: reintegrated
form: reintegrated
Etymology: From re- + integrate.
Senses: glosses: To integrate again or in a different manner
glosses: To restore something to a state of integration
reintegration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reintegrations
Etymology: From re- + integration.
Senses: glosses: The process of reintegrating.
reinterpretation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reinterpretations
Etymology: From re- + interpretation.
Senses: glosses: the condition of being reinterpreted
glosses: a new interpretation
glosses: the act of reinterpreting
Related terms: reinterpret
reinvention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reinventions
Etymology: From re- + invention.
Senses: examples: text: There have been various reinventions of the wheel.
text: Chicago was home to the reinvention of the harmonica from tiny dime store toy to amplified and distorted Mississippi sax.
ref: 2002, Art Tipaldi, Children of the Blues, P.67:
text: Personal reinventions fail partly for the obvious reasons: you set your goals too high; or your existing obligations at work or home get in the way; or you find (who could have imagined it?) that the unimpressive level of self-discipline you’ve demonstrated for your entire life until this moment can’t magically be tripled overnight.
ref: 2022 January 1, Oliver Burkeman, “New year, same old you! The secret to self-improvement is embracing your messy, imperfect life”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A reinventing of something.
glosses: The condition of being reinvented.
Derived terms: self-reinvention