cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Kvarken
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The narrow region in the Gulf of Bothnia separating the Bothnian Bay (the inner part of the gulf) from the Bothnian Sea.
ripply
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: ripplier
form: rippliest
Etymology: From ripple + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Well, by this time I was most down to the foot of the island. A little ripply, cool breeze begun to blow, and that was as good as saying the night was about done.
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Having ripples.
snapperhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snapperheads
Etymology: From snapper + head, possibly a reference to the appearance of snapper's heads frequently used as bait.
Senses: examples: text: 'Hallo, shipmate ! who are you ? And what the blessing do you want here ?' demanded the sailor, starting up in a fighting attitude. 'Back out of this, I say, Mr. Snapperhead, or whatever your name is...'
ref: 1867, Australian capers: or, Christopher Cockle's colonial experience, John Richard Howlding, page 377:
text: "'What, and interrupt me again? Bring it to me, snapper head.'"
ref: 2002, Destiny of the Soul, Heywood Steele, →ISBN, page 198:
text: "'Get off of me, snapperhead!' grunted Rhett."
ref: 2005, Seth King, Triangles, →ISBN, page 456:
text: "From thirty feet away, Fletcher yelled 'Hey, Snapperhead! What the fuck are you doing?'"
ref: 2007, Race the Rising Sun, Eric Steeves, →ISBN, page 302:
glosses: a dumbbell; a knucklehead.
risibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: risibilities
Senses: examples: text: Lady Anne was very angry, both at herself and the Count; nevertheless, his perfect simplicity and sincerity, and the nonchalance with which he spoke, amused her as much as it vexed her; and, as poor Georgiana, after various efforts to subdue her risibility, was constrained to laugh outright, the features of Lady Anne admitted the Chesterfieldian smile, and she exclaimed, "Really, Count, you are the drollest man in the world, and say the oddest things in the world."
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XLVIII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 311:
glosses: The property of being risible.
Joneses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Jones
Derived terms: keep up with the Joneses
sandthorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsænd.θɔɹn/
ipa: /ˈsænd.θɔːn/
Forms: form: sandthorns
Etymology: From sand + thorn.
Senses: examples: text: They likewise must ascend mountains by degrees and not make extraordinary leap of the Sandthorn, Hippophae rhamnoides...
ref: 1837, "Professor Link", "Contributions to the Botanical Geography of the South of Europe" in The Analyst vol. 7 http://books.google.com/books?id=mNwEAAAAQAAJ, page 50
text: "... the first sandthorns and willows are met with at an altitude of 26-2700 meters."
ref: 1911, Ole Olufsen, The Emir of Bokhara and His Country, page 269:
text: "The breeze is soft and singing through the sandthorn tree."
ref: 2003, Veronika Van Duin, A Rainbow Over the River: Experiences of Life, Death, and Other Worlds, →ISBN, page 159:
glosses: A species of sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides), found from western Europe to northwestern China.
Synonyms: common sea-buckthorn
Russian sandthorn
rightsize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rightsizes
form: rightsizing
form: rightsized
form: rightsized
form: right-size
Etymology: From right + size.
Senses: examples: text: In summary, there are significant costs to a medical practice if it has too few or too many support staff. It is critical to rightsize staff with the appropriate methodology and tools to perform this analysis correctly on the first attempt.
ref: 2003, Deborah L. Walker, David N. Gans, Rightsizing: Appropriate Staffing for Your Medical Practice, Medical Group Management Association, →ISBN, page 9:
text: Now is not the time to kid yourself—face the brutal facts and get on with your rightsizing decision. A rightsizing decision checklist follows this chapter.
ref: 2011, Bill Welter, Rightsizing Your Business: Breakthrough Strategies to Create a Flexible and Profitable Business in Any Economy, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
topics: business
glosses: To downsize.
rezone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rezones
form: rezoning
form: rezoned
form: rezoned
Etymology: From re- + zone.
Senses: glosses: to change the zoning assigned to a piece of property by the planning and zoning commission of a government that determines proper and legal use for land.
right-to-lifer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: right-to-lifers
Etymology: From right to life + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who espouses a position of support for fetuses' right to life; a pro-lifer; one who opposed abortion.
glosses: One who is opposed to the legalization of euthanasia.
Synonyms: word: antiabortionist
word: antichoicer
word: fetus fetishist
word: forced-birther
word: pro-lifer
right-to-life
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Describing an antiabortion political position.
rights-of-way
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of right-of-way
ridgy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: ridgier
form: ridgiest
Etymology: From ridge + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The land around here is very ridgy, so we get too little sun between ridges and too much wind at the tops.
synonyms: ridged
glosses: Rising in a ridge or ridges; having ridges.
Related terms: ridgy-didge
reviser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: revisers
form: revisor
Etymology: From revise + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who revises.
examples: text: [T]ranslation practice during training should, at least in part, be organised in projects where each student has the chance to play various roles: that of client, of revisor, of terminologist of documentation assistant, of free-lancer, of in-house translator working for a translation company, etc.
ref: 2005, Christiane Nord, edited by Martha Tennent and Benjamins Translation Library, Training for the New Millennium: Pedagogies for translation and interpreting, page 218:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
glosses: A person who verifies the quality of a translated text in professional translation project management.
topics: law
glosses: In several states, an official charged with the responsibility for making new statutes technically consistent with the existing body of law.
revolvable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From revolve + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being revolved, rotatable.
spinnable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spinnable
form: most spinnable
Etymology: From spin + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being spun (in various senses).
Hyponyms: sense: politically
word: hasbarable
Sultan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A glacier in Antarctica
glosses: A village in Azerbaijan.
glosses: A coastal town in Libya.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Ontario.
glosses: A town, village and mountain range in Turkey.
glosses: A city and river in Washington.
vulnerabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vulnerability
axons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of axon
electrodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrode
fats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fæts/
Senses: glosses: plural of fat
allergists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allergist
ophthalmologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ophthalmologist
compulsions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compulsion
obsessions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obsession
antidepressants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antidepressant
assays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of assay
assays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of assay
benzodiazepines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benzodiazepine
benzodiazepine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɛnzoʊdaɪˈæzɪpiːn/
Forms: form: benzodiazepines
Etymology: From benzo- + diazepine.
Senses: examples: text: That week we were in the desert I couldn't sleep—perhaps a couple of hours each night at the most even with a steady intake of benzodiazepine.
ref: 2023, Bret Easton Ellis, chapter 1, in The Shards:
text: His modus operandi was to drug them with wine or tea laced with benzodiazepines, which incapacitated them and wiped out their memories.
ref: 2023 December 21, Anna Moore, “The couch surfing predator: how a group of women were drugged and assaulted - then fought back”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: word: BZD
word: benzo
coordinate_terms: barbiturate
glosses: Any of a class of psychoactive drugs, structured upon diazepine, used in the treatment of anxiety, insomnia and other related disorders.
Synonyms: word: benzodiazepine
Hypernyms: word: anxiolytic
word: pharmaceutical
Hyponyms: word: alprazolam
word: bromazepam
word: clonazepam
word: diazepam
word: haloxazolam
word: meclonazepam
Derived terms: alprazolam
-azenil
clobazam
clozapine
diazepam
nonbenzodiazepine
olanzapine
pirenzepine
telenzepine
tibezonium
zolenzepine
Related terms: word: W:List of benzodiazepines
diazepine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diazepines
Etymology: From di- + azepine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A seven-membered unsaturated heterocycle having two nitrogen atoms and three double bonds; any derivative of this compound
Derived terms: benzodiazepine
dibenzodiazepine
nevirapine
oxadiazepine
thiadiazepine
tivirapine
neuropsychologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuropsychologist
neuropsychologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuropsychologists
Etymology: From neuro- + psychologist.
Senses: glosses: A neurologist or psychologist whose speciality is neuropsychology.
neuropsychology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + psychology.
Senses: glosses: A branch of neurology and of clinical psychology that investigates the physiological basis of psychological processes.
examples: text: the neuropsychology of culpability comprises the neurology of competence and indeed all neuroscience of the neural correlates of consciousness
glosses: The facts uncovered thereby, or the body of knowledge thus produced.
Derived terms: teleneuropsychology
Related terms: neuropsychiatrist
neuropsychiatry
neuropsychological
neuropsychologist
physiotherapists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of physiotherapist
enquiries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enquiry
caretakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caretaker
exorphins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exorphin
Joe College
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A fictitious name used to designate the typical college student or to characterize a person as being a typical college student.
Related terms: John Doe
exorphin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exorphins
Senses: glosses: Any compound, formed outside of the brain, that interacts with opiate receptors; especially any of a range of peptides, formed during the metabolism of gluten, that are thought to disrupt brain function in autistic children.
Related terms: endorphin
exorphines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exorphine
exorphine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exorphines
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of exorphin.
cashews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cashew
imbalances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imbalance
vaccinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vaccination
neurons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuron
checkups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of checkup
casomorphines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of casomorphine
casomorphine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: casomorphines
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of casomorphin.
par excellence
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɑːɹ ˌɛksəˈlɑːns/
ipa: /ˌpɑːɹ ˈɛksəlɑːns/
ipa: /ˌpɑːɹ ˌɛksəˈlɒ̃s/
ipa: /ˌpɑːɹ ˈɛksəlɒ̃s/
ipa: /ˌpɑr ˌɛksəˈlɑn(t)s/
ipa: /ˌpɑɹ ˌɛksəˈlɑns/
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French par excellence (“excellently, in an especially representative way; above all”), a calque of Latin per excellentiam, itself a calque of Ancient Greek κατ’ ἐξοχήν (kat’ exokhḗn).
Senses: examples: text: The name of Venus is in deede but bautye,
And men me fayrest call, per excellencye.
ref: 1584, George Peele, The Araygnement of Paris, ii, i:
glosses: Because or on account of one's excellence.
examples: text: He was par excellence a theologian.
ref: 2009, John Murray, “Introduction”, in John Calvin, The Institutes of the Christian Religion:
glosses: Most excellently, variously intending
Most especially, in particular, most notably (out of a thing or person's other attributes, roles, etc.).
examples: text: She was par excellence the vigilant member of the house-hold.
ref: 1877, William Worthington Fowler, Woman on the American Frontier, page 99:
glosses: Most excellently, variously intending
In a superior way, in the most representative or fully-developed manner.
Synonyms: sense: most excellently
word: pre-eminently
sense: most excellently
word: supremely
sense: most excellently
word: above all
par excellence
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɑːɹ ˌɛksəˈlɑːns/
ipa: /ˌpɑːɹ ˈɛksəlɑːns/
ipa: /ˌpɑːɹ ˌɛksəˈlɒ̃s/
ipa: /ˌpɑːɹ ˈɛksəlɒ̃s/
ipa: /ˌpɑr ˌɛksəˈlɑn(t)s/
ipa: /ˌpɑɹ ˌɛksəˈlɑns/
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French par excellence (“excellently, in an especially representative way; above all”), a calque of Latin per excellentiam, itself a calque of Ancient Greek κατ’ ἐξοχήν (kat’ exokhḗn).
Senses: examples: text: The Santo (which is St. Antonio's church, called il Santo par excellence) […]
ref: 1695 (published 1845), Earl of Perth, Letters, p. 61
text: At one time they were twenty-four in number; but Holland (1812) and Hughes (1814) found them reduced to ten; at Curzon's visit (1834) there were only seven; and in 1853 not more than four of these were inhabited by more than two or three monks. Meteora par excellence is the largest and perhaps the most ancient.
ref: 1883, "Meteora" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XVI, p. 114
glosses: Most excellent, variously intending
Being the proper or truest example of a general name.
examples: text: This is the age of invention, most certainly—the age, one may say—the age par excellence.
ref: 1839 August, Edgar Allan Poe, Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, page 68:
text: The mathematical reason has long been regarded as the reason par excellence.
ref: 1845, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Purloined Letter”, in Tales, page 212:
glosses: Most excellent, variously intending
Being a quintessential example of a general type.
Synonyms: sense: truest example of a general name
word: proper
casomorphin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: casomorphins
Senses: glosses: Any of several peptides, formed during the metabolism of casein, that have opiate activity.
Derived terms: neocasomorphin
Related terms: exorphin
sweeteners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweetener
subtypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subtype
subtypes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subtype
subtype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subtypes
Etymology: From sub- + type.
Senses: examples: text: Highly pathogenic bird flu (HPAI) is of rising concern to epidemiologists. The US National Library of Medicine lists H5N9 as a subtype avian influenza virus.
ref: 2025 January 27, Edward Helmore, “First outbreak of rare bird flu strain reported at California poultry farm”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A group of specific things within a larger, more general group.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The data type represented by a subclass.
Derived terms: subtype polymorphism
subtype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subtypes
form: subtyping
form: subtyped
form: subtyped
Etymology: From sub- + type.
Senses: glosses: To categorise as a subtype.
Synonyms: subclassify
immunizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunization
probiotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of probiotic
caregivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caregiver
psychotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychotic
stimulants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stimulant
medications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medication
completer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: completers
Etymology: From complete (verb) + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who completes something.
completer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From complete (adjective) + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of complete: more complete
Barents Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbæɹənts ˈsi/
/ˈbɛəɹənts ˈsi/
Etymology: Named after the Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz.
Senses: glosses: A part of the Arctic Ocean located north of Norway and northwestern Russia.
wikipedia: Willem Barentsz
kumara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkuːməɹə/
ipa: [ˈkʰʉːm(ə)ɹʷɐ]
ipa: [ˈkʰʉːmɐɾɐ]
Forms: form: kumaras
form: kumara
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori kūmara.
Senses: examples: text: They introduced the gourd, taro and kumara from the Polynesian Islands to the New Zealanders.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 98:
text: “And once, a woman threw a piece of cooked kumara at me and I ducked, and laughed…”
ref: 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 368:
text: In contrast to everything else that these migrant people had lugged from island to island, the kūmara had not come from the west.
ref: 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 21:
glosses: The sweet potato.
Derived terms: suck the kumara
Norwegian Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Norwegian Sea
Senses: glosses: The northernmost part of the Atlantic Ocean, located northwest of Norway.
halleluja
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hallelujah.
halleluja
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hallelujas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hallelujah.
silat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay silat (“self-defense”).
Senses: glosses: A type of martial art originating from the Malay Archipelago.
St George's Channel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The channel connecting the Irish Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the southwest.
dismisses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dismiss
prostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From prostate + -ic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the prostate gland.
Derived terms: benign prostatic hyperplasia
extraprostatic
intraprostatic
nonprostatic
periprostatic
postprostatic
preprostatic
prostatic acid phosphatase
prostatic adenocarcinoma
prostatic urethra
prostatic utricle
puboprostatic
urethroprostatic
vesicoprostatic
not to mention
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: examples: text: The city was already having staffing difficulties, not to mention having a three million dollar budget shortfall.
text: In fact, the immortal tunemeister Irving Berlin wrote all three [songs], along with about 1,500 others, not to mention the scores for eighteen Hollywood films and nineteen Broadway musicals.
ref: 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 2, 51:
text: An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic[…]real kidneys[…]. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.
ref: 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
glosses: An apophasis used by a speaker to introduce, despite claiming not to address, a given point of discussion.
Synonyms: to say nothing of
Related terms: apophasis
let alone
much less
altercations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of altercation
shadier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of shady: more shady
shadiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: But here is an artist. He desires to paint you the dreamiest, shadiest, quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of the Saco.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 1, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: superlative form of shady: most shady
rowdiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of rowdy: most rowdy
rowdies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rowdy
eye witness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eye witnesses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of eyewitness.
eye witnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eye witness
retells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retell
retelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retell
retelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retellings
Senses: examples: text: The new film is a needless retelling of what was already a cinematic classic.
text: Like those of other saints, Mira Bai's life story lies within a number of retellings, each more detailed than the last, so that her biography now includes burnishings that probably would not pass any historian's test.
ref: 2001, Kenneth L. Woodward, The Book of Miracles:
text: Huntsman feints at being the Snow White retelling no one has ever seen before, but ultimately becomes the “been there, done that” of fairy-tale filmmaking.
ref: 2012 May 31, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Review: Snow White And The Huntsman”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 13 Apr 2024:
glosses: A new, changed, or adapted version of a story.
herrings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herring
your Honor
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Forms: form: Your Honour
Senses: examples: text: Touching the firſt, I refer my ſelf to your Honors favourable Opinion, and the Character which my Lord S. and others ſhall give of me: […]
ref: 1626 September 18 (Gregorian calendar), James Howell, “XXV. To the Right Honourable the Lord Conway, Principal Secretary of State to His Majesty, at Hampton Court.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume I, London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], published 1655, →OCLC, section IV, page 177:
text: The numbers of the French have been greatly magnified, as your Honor may see by a copy of the enclosed journal of a person, whom I sent out to gain intelligence.
ref: 1847, George Washington, The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, page 26:
qualifier: addressing someone of higher rank or status than oneself
glosses: you
qualifier: addressing a judge or magistrate
glosses: you
glosses: you (a form of address for a representative or senator in the Philippine Congress during hearings and inquiries, and for canvassers during the canvass of electoral results).
Derived terms: your Honors
cognacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cognacies
Senses: examples: text: First, in depending on vocabulary, as opposed to morphology or grammar, one runs the risk of assuming cognacy between similar words when the real explanation is borrowing.
ref: 2000, Bernd Heine, Derek Nurse, African Languages: An Introduction, →ISBN, page 262:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The relationship between cognates; the condition of sharing a common ancestor term in another language.
examples: text: In Table 13.1 are given the percentages for the degrees of cognacy between pairs of languages in the Upper Cross group.
ref: 1988, Monday B. Abasiattai, Expanding frontiers of African history: the inter-disciplinary methodology, →ISBN, page 255:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The degree to which two languages share cognates, usually expressed as a percentage
Synonyms: sense: relationship between cognates
word: cognateness
sense: relationship between cognates
word: cognancy
tritocerebrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛɹɪbɹəm
-iːbɹəm
Forms: form: tritocerebra
Etymology: From trito- (“third”) + cerebrum.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The third set of fused ganglia comprising the insect brain.
Derived terms: tritocerebral
Related terms: protocerebrum
deutocerebrum
nonadministrative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-administrative
Etymology: From non- + administrative.
Senses: glosses: Not administrative; not relating to administration.
nonadjustable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-adjustable
Etymology: From non- + adjustable.
Senses: glosses: Not adjustable; that cannot be adjusted.
nonadjacent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nonadjacent
form: most nonadjacent
Etymology: From non- + adjacent.
Senses: glosses: Not adjacent.
nonadhesive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nonadhesive
form: most nonadhesive
Etymology: From non- + adhesive.
Senses: glosses: not adhesive
nonaddictive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + addictive.
Senses: examples: text: Unlike methadone, the [antagonists] are nonaddictive, but the medical profession [generally] remains skeptical; results from use of the antagonists given on a daily basis have been unimpressive.
ref: 1971 March 19, Richard Severo, “Addiction: Chemistry Is the New Hope, but Degree of Its Effectiveness Is Still Disputed”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Not addictive; not able to cause addiction.
nonactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + active.
Senses: glosses: Not active; inactive; inert.
Synonyms: abeyant
dormant
latent
inactive
nonabsorbent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-absorbent
Etymology: From non- + absorbent.
Senses: glosses: Not absorbent; unable to absorb.
nonacademic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪk
Forms: form: non-academic
Etymology: From non- + academic.
Senses: glosses: Not academic; not related to academia.
Derived terms: nonacademically
nonacademic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪk
Forms: form: nonacademics
form: non-academic
Etymology: From non- + academic.
Senses: glosses: One who is not an academic.
nonadaptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + adaptive.
Senses: glosses: Not adaptive; unable to adapt.
Derived terms: nonadaptiveness
ferritin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferritins
form: ferratin
Etymology: From Latin ferrātus (“iron-bearing”) and -in; compare also ferri- and ferro-.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: transferrin
glosses: Any of a family of iron-carrying globular protein complexes consisting of 24 protein subunits; the key protein of intracellular iron storage.
Derived terms: apoferritin
bacterioferritin
ferritinaemia
ferritinemia
ferritinic
ferritinophagy
holoferritin
isoferritin
magnetoferritin
maxiferritin
miniferritin
phytoferritin
Related terms: hematin
hemoglobin
ferritins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferritin
hyperurbanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperurbanisms
Etymology: From hyper- + urbanism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: the creation of a non-standard form by mimicking the standard dialect.
Synonyms: hypercorrection
overcorrection
sijo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sijos
form: shijo
Etymology: From Korean 시조(時調) (sijo).
Senses: glosses: A classical Korean poetry form consisting of twelve accentual phrases divided in three lines.
glosses: Non-Korean poetry written in imitation of this style.
glosses: The musical mode to which these works were traditionally sung.
reciter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reciters
Etymology: From recite + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It is not primarily lack of plot, or lack of action and suspense, or imperfect realization of character, or lack of anything of what is called 'theatre', that makes these plays so lifeless: it is primarily that their rhythm of speech is something that we cannot associate with any human being except a poetry reciter.
ref: 1943, T. S. Eliot, On Poetry and Poets, New York: Noonday Press, published 1961, page 27:
text: Indeed it is very doubtful that Seneca's plays were ever intended for full performance; it is more likely that they were presented by a cast of reciters, like an oratorio.
ref: 1956, Moses Hadas, Editor's Introduction, Medea, Bobbs-Merrill, page 7:
text: 1972, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Homecoming: Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture and Politics, London: Heinemann, Part Two, p. 75,
The African song gets its effect from an accumulation of details, statements and imagery, and in the variation of the tone and attitude of the poet-reciter to the object of praise.
text: Alemah in Arabic means a learned woman. It was the name given to women in conservative eighteenth-century Egyptian society who were accomplished reciters of poetry.
ref: 1978, Edward Said, chapter 2, in Orientalism, New York: Vintage, page 186:
text: These were emotional occasions for Ibn Battuta, who describes the beauty of the Quran reciters’ voices that worked upon the soul, humbled the heart, made the skin tingle and brought tears to the eyes.
ref: 2010, David Waines, chapter 2, in The Odyssey of Ibn Battuta: Uncommon Tales of a Medieval Adventurer, New York: I.B. Tauris, page 49:
glosses: One who recites.
recliner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recliners
Etymology: From recline + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, reclines.
glosses: A chair hinged so that the back can be reclined for comfort.
recommendable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more recommendable
form: most recommendable
Etymology: From recommend + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being recommended.
Derived terms: recommendableness
recommendably
revertible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈvɜːtɪbl̩/
ipa: /ɹɪˈvɝtɪbl̩/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tɪbəl
Forms: form: revertable
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman French revertible, from Late Latin revertibilis, from Latin revertere, from re- (“re-: again, back”) + vertere (“to turn”), + -ibilis (“-ible: able to”). Equivalent to revert + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: When the sequence numbers are all equal and there is a mix of revertible and unrevertible volumes, the copy to the FlashCopy targets has taken place but the process is not finished for some volumes.
ref: 2021, Bertrand Dufrasne, Michael Frankenberg, Tony Eriksson, IBM DS8000 Copy Services: Updated for IBM DS8000 Release 9.1, page 253:
glosses: Able to be reverted.
reverentially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more reverentially
form: most reverentially
Etymology: From reverential + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a reverential manner; worshipfully.
restfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: restfulnesses
Etymology: From Middle English restfulnesse, equivalent to restful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being restful.
resow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resows
form: resowing
form: resowed
form: resown
Etymology: From re- + sow.
Senses: glosses: To sow again, to plant seed where it has already been planted.
resown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of resow
nephelococcygia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛ.fə.loʊ.kɑkˈsɪ.d͡ʒi.ə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Νεφελοκοκκυγία (Nephelokokkugía). The word comes from the play The Birds by the Greek playwright Aristophanes.
Senses: glosses: The act of seeking and finding shapes in clouds.
Related terms: cloud-cuckoo-land
Punekar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Punekars
Etymology: From Marathi पुणेकर (puṇekar), meaning one who comes from Pune, a city in Maharastra, India.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant or native of Pune.
Punekar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Punekars
Etymology: From Marathi पुणेकर (puṇekar), meaning one who comes from Pune, a city in Maharastra, India.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Marathi.
vacated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vacate
masterpieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masterpiece
revolvers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revolver
raptures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rapture
raptures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rapture
Sargasso Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An elongated area in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by ocean currents.
Related terms: sargasso
Labrador Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An arm of the North Atlantic Ocean between Greenland and Labrador.
trito-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: trit-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τρίτος (trítos, “third (of three or more)”).
Senses: glosses: one third
glosses: the third
Coordinate terms: proto-
prot-
deutero-
deuter-
Chukchi Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, between Chukotka and Alaska.
Related terms: Chukchi
Chukotka
proclamations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proclamation
prelates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prelate
reasonings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reasoning
blotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blot
blotting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blottings
Senses: examples: text: the mean blottings of an hireling pen
ref: 1819, William Wastle, The Mad Banker of Amsterdam:
glosses: A blot; a stain.
examples: text: The per cent water was calculated to be 80.7 after 10 blottings[…]
ref: 1963, Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine:
glosses: The process by which something is blotted.
Derived terms: blottingly
blotting pad
electroblotting
glycoblotting
immunoblotting
transblotting
exposer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exposers
Etymology: From expose + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who exposes.
Related terms: exposé
conceits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conceit
comers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comer
hammer toe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hammer toes
form: hammertoe
Senses: examples: text: The woman wore special orthopedic shoes to try and alleviate her hammer toe.
glosses: A medical condition where a toe is permanently bent down.
examples: text: My sister has hammer toes on both feet and consequently avoids the family hiking expeditions.
text: He had contracted a hammer-toe from his solitary walking about the town.
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 539:
glosses: A toe suffering from such condition.
Related terms: mallet toe
mallet toe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mallet toes
Senses: glosses: Hammer toe when it affects a toe joint furthest from the foot.
overglazes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overglaze
gags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæɡz/
rhymes: -æɡz
Senses: glosses: plural of gag
gags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæɡz/
rhymes: -æɡz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gag
nabbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nab
nabbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nab
nabs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nab
nabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nabs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nibs (“an important or self-important person”).
raw_tags: after possessive pronoun
glosses: Alternative form of nibs (“self”).
raw_tags: after possessive pronoun
Derived terms: his nabs
my nabs
nabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the brand name Nabs. Clipping of Nabisco.
Senses: examples: text: He purchased a pack of nabs from the vending machine.
text: "Essos and Phillips 66s meant a pack of nabs and a Grapette for me."
ref: 1996, Grace Ollis Calhoun, Growing Up Country and Liking It!, The Overmountain Press, page 27:
text: "Others walked to small stores to buy a pack of Nabs cheese crackers, ..."
ref: 2005, Mark Sohn, Appalachian Home Cooking, University Press of Kentucky, page 74:
text: "I'll give you ten bucks to use your telephone and for a pack of nabs and a cold drink."
ref: 2014, Marion Eugene Williams, A Cop's Dilemma, Xlibris Corporation, page 92:
glosses: A single-serving package of snack crackers, usually filled with peanut butter.
blockbusters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blockbuster
budges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbʌd͡ʒɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of budge
budging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbʌd͡ʒɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of budge
stabilizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stabilization
theorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of theorize
gestured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gesture
downgraded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of downgrade
downgraded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more downgraded
form: most downgraded
Senses: glosses: Whose rating, status etc has been reduced
mentored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mentor
mentored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Under the control of a mentor
Derived terms: telementored
unmentored
sansculotte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sansculottes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sans-culotte.
individualized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of individualize
individualized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more individualized
form: most individualized
Senses: glosses: Tailored to an individual.
Derived terms: unindividualized
regressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of regress
regressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more regressed
form: most regressed
Senses: glosses: That has been subject to regression
crusaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crusade
heritability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heritabilities
Senses: glosses: The condition of being inheritable
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The ratio of the genetic variance of a population to its phenotypic variance; i.e. the proportion of variability that is genetic in origin
Synonyms: english: much less common
translation: much less common
word: inheritability
Derived terms: pseudoheritability
regressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more regressive
form: most regressive
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin regressīvus, equivalent to regress + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Some say history repeats itself, that time is cyclical. Others cling to the notion of progress and change over time. Apparently Nancy Walker marches to a different drummer — marches backwards, that is. Her ideas on art and society seem quaint and odd on the one hand and, on the other, petty and regressive.
ref: 1981 December 27, Wade Nichols, “Victorian Imperialism”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 23, page 5:
text: A contributing factor to this slightly regressive femininity may have been the sugary fabrics (silver lamé, tulle over sequins) and the meringuelike puffs and baby Googums bows at the neck.
ref: 2007 February 6, Cathy Horyn, “Young Spirits, One of Them an Old Master”, in The New York Times:
text: He likes experimenting with flamboyant clothes! That’s it! It’s weird and regressive to think that means he is making a statement about his sexual orientation or gender identity. Let the man wear his “clowncore” jumpsuits in peace.
ref: 2023 February 8, Arwa Mahdawi, “People like Harry Styles don’t get awards? Pah!”, in G2 (w:The Guardian), London, page 3:
glosses: That tends to return, revert or regress.
glosses: Whose rate decreases as the taxed amount increases.
raw_tags: of a tax
Derived terms: word: regressive argument
topics: phonology
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: regressive assimilation
word: regressive left
word: regressive leftism
word: regressive leftist
Related terms: regress
regression
phenocopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenocopies
Etymology: From pheno- + copy.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A phenotypic variation (in an organism) that resembles a phenotype from a genetic cause but has an environmental rather than genetic cause (and thus is not inherited).
phenocopy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phenocopies
form: phenocopying
form: phenocopied
form: phenocopied
Etymology: From pheno- + copy.
Senses: examples: text: The wg- mutant can be phenocopied by injecting antisense RNA (complementary to the 3 kb wg+ transcript) into wild-type embryos.
ref: 1990, David de Pomerai, From Gene to Animal, →ISBN, page 275:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: To copy a genetic variation through environmental manipulation.
Related terms: phenocopier
Reaganism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Reaganisms
Etymology: From Reagan + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The specific conservative ideology associated with the Reagan administration, 1981-1989.
glosses: A statement or position commonly associated with Ronald Reagan.
Synonyms: topics: ideology
politics
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
government
word: Gipperism
office boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: office boys
form: office-boy
Etymology: From office + boy (“junior employee”).
Senses: glosses: A junior male clerk employed in a professional office to perform odd jobs, such as running errands or making copies.
Related terms: office girl
office lady
office wife
phenocopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phenocopy
heptapeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hepta- + peptide.
Senses: glosses: consisting of seven amino acids linked by peptide bonds
heptapeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heptapeptides
Etymology: From hepta- + peptide.
Senses: glosses: a heptapeptide compound
Derived terms: cycloheptapeptide
lipoheptapeptide
dry measure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry measures
Senses: examples: text: The peck and the bushel are commonly used imperial dry measures
glosses: A unit of volume used in measuring dry commodities (e.g. grain or fruit).
Related terms: liquid measure
make an honest woman
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes an honest woman
form: making an honest woman
form: made an honest woman
form: made an honest woman
Senses: examples: text: I thought about just asking Rosalyn to move in with me, but I decided it was time to make an honest woman out of her.
text: the mother, Mr Jones, Mr Nightingale, and his love, stept into a hackney-coach, which conveyed them to Doctors' Commons; where Miss Nancy was, in vulgar language, soon made an honest woman, and the poor mother became […] one of the happiest of all human beings.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 567:
glosses: To marry (a woman), especially if there is an existing sexual relationship.
raw_tags: with "of"
capitaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capitaines
Etymology: Borrowed from French capitaine.
Senses: examples: text: (traducted from french to english): "Captain, I didn't tell you that I speak french very well too. My old girlfriend mentored me, when I was working at Merten Orbital Station." Confused, the capitaine look at Thomas and said:
"Indeed, it's surprise me very much..."
ref: 1996 April 12, Nicola Pezolet, “SS Alsace (FT) #21, Cafe' discussions”, in alt.starfleet.rpg (Usenet), retrieved 27 May 2022:
text: Of course, a Capitaine of a ship having already a mutinery aboard before he got the chair is not very pleasant. I didn't mean to criticize Souvannaphouma solely. His XO, Cox'n and the rest of the personel could have gave their support to their CO.
ref: 1998 April 6, CHOWIGAN, “INSULTED”, in soc.culture.laos (Usenet), retrieved 27 May 2022:
text: The company is a Malaysian one, the capitaine is a Malaysian one. I guess he doesn't want to lose his boat in the sea or to have any trouble, so he manages his business with wisdom. Last september, I stayed one full day in Koh Kong because it was impossible to travel due to the storm. The capitaine did not try to go. If the boat leave the port, it means thet it's 100% safe.The boats on the sea are 10 times better than the boat from PP to Siem Reap.
ref: 1999 March 15, Robert White, “Warning - Travel to and in Cambodia”, in soc.culture.thai (Usenet), retrieved 27 May 2022:
text: I sort of get the fanatical devotion to, say, Gionta. Even if injured or seeming to play uninspired hockey (relative to his old self, anyway), he's the capitaine and at least has a relatively longstanding reputation as a sparkplug and clutch scorer.
ref: 2013 May 7, Gerry, “Well, That Was Pretty Disgraceful”, in alt.sports.hockey.nhl.mtl-canadiens (Usenet), retrieved 27 May 2022:
qualifier: non-native speakers' English or in reference to a French-speaking person
glosses: A captain.