cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
uprights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: Vertical (upright) posts of the goal.
glosses: plural of upright
salvationist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From salvation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the doctrine of salvation.
salvationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salvationists
Etymology: From salvation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who adheres to the doctrine of salvation.
Related terms: Salvationist
Salvationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Salvationists
Etymology: From salvation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Salvation Army.
Salvationist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From salvation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the activities or doctrines of the Salvation Army.
salvationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salvationisms
Etymology: From salvation + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A belief system that places the responsibility for the fulfillment of humanity outside itself, usually in the hands of a deity.
glosses: The religious doctrine of the salvation of the soul.
semi-circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-circles
Senses: examples: text: Below is the deep abyss of the Lauterbrunnen valley, and at its head a stately semi-circle of mountains, with the pyramidal Lauterbrunnen Breithorn as the centre-piece.
ref: 1960 December, 'Voyageur', “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 752:
text: The switchback road to Diabaig - pronounced 'Jer-vague' - passes through some of the most exhilarating scenery in Scotland. […] With a final swoop, the road plummets down into Diabaig, where cottages are dotted across the slopes of a rocky semi-circle.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 151:
glosses: Alternative spelling of semicircle.
semi-circular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more semi-circular
form: most semi-circular
Senses: examples: text: Seven huge concentric semi-circular rings of stone surround the northern end, and quite rightly are Grade 2-listed by conservation body Historic England.
ref: 2020 August 26, Tim Dunn, “Great railway bores of our time!”, in Rail, page 45:
glosses: Alternative spelling of semicircular.
biomonitoring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biomonitorings
Etymology: From bio- + monitoring.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The monitoring of the organisms that live in a particular environment in order to assess the continuing quality of the ecosystem
Related terms: biomonitor
fairleader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairleaders
Etymology: From fair + leader.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A fitting used to guide a line, cable or sheet with minimal friction. Used for anchor lines, and for rigging on sailing ships.
Synonyms: fairlead
nanoalloy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoalloys
Etymology: From nano- + alloy.
Senses: examples: text: For microalloys the boundary can be treated as a thin layer of the segregating element including segregating impurities. In the case of nanoalloys, the segregation pattern can involve a significant part of the whole grain.
ref: 2020, Florent Calvo, Nanoalloys: From Fundamentals to Emergent Applications, page 194:
glosses: An alloy consisting of dispersed nanoparticles of two or more metals.
nanoalloy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nanoalloys
form: nanoalloying
form: nanoalloyed
form: nanoalloyed
Etymology: From nano- + alloy.
Senses: glosses: To produce an alloy of this kind.
nanoscience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanosciences
Etymology: From nano- + science.
Senses: examples: text: At least 26 institutes in the Czech Academy of Sciences, 37 university faculties and nine state-funded research organizations are conducting basic research in various areas of nanoscience, according to CzechInvest, the country’s investment and business development agency.
ref: 2012 May 22, Jacy Meyer, “To Czech Industry, Everything Is Nano”, in The International Herald Tribune, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 Dec 2020:
glosses: The underlying science of nanotechnology.
Derived terms: bionanoscience
lactitol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lactitols
Etymology: From lact- + -itol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A sugar alcohol, 4-O-α-D-galactopyranosyl-D-glucitol, derived from lactulose; it is used as an artificial sweetener (E966).
lactulose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlak.tjʊ.ləʊz/
ipa: /ˈlæk.t(j)ʊˌloʊs/
Forms: form: lactuloses
Etymology: From lact- + (cell)ulose.
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A synthetic disaccharide C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁ consisting of galactose and fructose units, used as a laxative for chronic constipation and as an acidifier to reduce blood ammonia levels causing neurological symptoms in advanced liver disease. It is used in solution for oral or rectal administration.
big-wig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big-wigs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bigwig.
sardonyx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɑː(ɹ)ˈdɒnɪks/
homophone: sardonics
rhymes: -ɒnɪks
Forms: form: sardonyxes
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin sardonyx.
Senses: examples: text: The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 21:20:
text: The large chalice at right is carved from a single chunk of sardonyx, a kind of onyx. Its gilded rim and base are decorated with tiny enamels depicting a host of popular saints, including Nicephorus (farthest left on rim), a Ninth Century patriarch and opponent of a religious movement to destroy icons.
ref: 1980, Colin Thubron, Seafarers: The Venetians, page 40:
text: I was wondering at these hanging gardens amid the forest of pink and white marble, red sardonyx, blue-gray, and cream, and black bricks, and green and yellow and tyrian tiles, when the sight of a lansquenet guarding the entrance to a casern reminded me of the promise I had made the officer of the peltasts the night before.
ref: 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XVI, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 151:
glosses: A gemstone having bands of red sard; a variety of onyx or chalcedony.
schizodactyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From schizo- + dactyly.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A primate term for grasping and clinging with the second and third digit fingers, instead of the thumb and second digit.
divulgate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈvʌl.ɡeɪt/
rhymes: -ʌlɡeɪt
Forms: form: divulgates
form: divulgating
form: divulgated
form: divulgated
Etymology: The adjective is first attested circa 1440, in Middle English, the verb in 1530; inherited from Middle English divulgat(e) (“divulgated”, used participially), borrowed from Latin dīvulgātus, perfect passive participle of dīvulgāre, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of divulge.
Senses: glosses: To divulge.
examples: text: he did divulgate and disperse abroad among the king's subjects great numbers of books
ref: 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To publish.
Derived terms: divulgater
divulgatory
Related terms: divulgator
divulgate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈvʌl.ɡeɪt/
rhymes: -ʌlɡeɪt
Etymology: The adjective is first attested circa 1440, in Middle English, the verb in 1530; inherited from Middle English divulgat(e) (“divulgated”, used participially), borrowed from Latin dīvulgātus, perfect passive participle of dīvulgāre, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of divulge.
Senses: examples: text: It was diuulgate through all Rome.
ref: 1574, Edward Hellowes, The familiar epistles, translation of original by Anthony of Gueuara:
glosses: Published.
raw_tags: as a participle
Bende
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An ethnolinguistic group based in the Mpanda District of Rukwa Region in western Tanzania.
glosses: A local government area of Abia State, Nigeria.
dolose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dolosus; compare dolus.
Senses: examples: text: That having been obtained, everything should be restored to the former position, and the dolose party be condemned.
ref: 1854, Patrick Mac Chombaich de Colquhoun, A Summary of the Roman Civil Law:
text: Several texts tell us, however, that when the owner was a minor, there is a remedy against the dolose slave.
ref: 1908, William Warwick Buckland, The Roman Law of Slavery: The Condition of the Slave, page 692:
text: A dolose act was an act committed with a view to causing damage. […] a dolose act will by construction always be culpable; on the other hand, a culpable act might either be dolose, if the occurrence of the harm was intended, or not, if it was not.
ref: 2009, Eric Descheemaeker, The Division of Wrongs: A Historical Comparative Study, →ISBN, page 72:
topics: law
glosses: Deceitful, with hidden malice.
Related terms: dolus
dolosity
sonate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sonates
form: sonating
form: sonated
form: sonated
Senses: glosses: To make a sound
Related terms: sonation
cryovolcanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cryo- + volcanism.
Senses: examples: text: Sites of cryovolcanisms on the surface, where this ammonia and water mixture reaches the surface, are possible locations for life that lives in liquid water but can tolerate ammonia.
ref: 2009, Robert Brown, Jean Pierre Lebreton, Jack Waite, Titan from Cassini-Huygens, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 228:
text: Possible explanations include floods of liquid water, ice-based volcanic activity (termed cryovolcanism), or even some form of tectonic system.
[…] Voyager also found evidence of cryovolcanism on Neptune's moon Triton.
ref: 2015 March 12, John Timmer, “Jupiter’s moon Ganymede has a salty subsurface ocean, too”, in Ars Technica:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
volcanology
glosses: The activity, and associated phenomena, of a cryovolcano – a volcano that ejects volatile materials rather than magma.
Hypernyms: volcanism
cryovolcano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryovolcanoes
form: cryovolcanos
Etymology: From cryo- + volcano.
Senses: topics: astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
planetology
volcanology
glosses: A volcano on an icy moon that ejects volatile materials rather than magma.
Synonyms: word: ice volcano
Related terms: cryovolcanic
cryovolcanism
cryolava
cryomagma
methanological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Describing a weather system, on a world such as Titan, in which methane takes the place of water.
ran over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of run over
quinotoxine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quinotoxines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A derivative of quinine that has a historical importance in the synthesis of the drug.
running over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of run over
vasopressin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌveɪzəʊˈpɹɛsɪn/
ipa: /ˌveɪzoʊˈpɹɛsɪn/
Forms: form: vasopressins
Etymology: From vasopressor + -in, circa 1927; see details at vasopressor § Etymology.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An antidiuretic hormone secreted by the pituitary gland.
Derived terms: vasopressinergic
vasopressinase
Related terms: lypressin
vasopressor
runs over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of run over
ran through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of run through
running through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of run through
runs through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of run through
cornichon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔɹ.nɪ.ʃɔn/
Forms: form: cornichons
Etymology: Borrowed from French cornichon.
Senses: examples: text: Garnished with excellent Dijon-style mustard, horseradish, cornichons, sprinkled with diced gelee, it was close to perfection as one is likely to get on a dinner plate.
ref: 1988 May 27, Sondra Rosenberg, “Restaurant Tours: a bargain verging on a steal”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Move over, dirty martini. The pickletini—with our clever Southern spin—is a tangier, more savory, arguably tastier cocktail. We love our pickled okra riff, but if okra isn't your thing, you can simply sub dill pickles (or cornichons). Dry vermouth adds a hint of herbal backbone, but you can omit it if you don't have it on hand. Despite 007's classic order, a traditional martini should be stirred, not shaken, so that it has a weightier mouthfeel (shaking aerates it) and is a bit less diluted.
ref: 2022 August 11, Ann Taylor Pittman, “Southern Pickletini”, in Southern Living, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2024:
glosses: A dill-pickled gherkin cucumber.
glosses: A French-style pickled miniature cucumber.
throwing signs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of throw signs
throwing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of throw up
cushiony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ko͝osh′ən-ē
ipa: /ˈkʊʃ.ən.iː/
ipa: /ˈkʊʃ.ən.i/
ipa: /ˈkʉʃ.ən.i/
ipa: /ˈkʉʃ.ən.i/
rhymes: -ʊʃəni
Forms: form: more cushiony
form: most cushiony
Etymology: From cushion (noun) + -y (adjectival suffix). First attested in 1830–1840.
Senses: glosses: Like a cushion: comfortable, soft, yielding.
glosses: Having cushions; provided with cushions.
glosses: Used as a cushion.
cuprous oxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuprous oxides
Senses: glosses: copper(I) oxide, with chemical formula Cu₂O. Used as a pigment, fungicide and antifouling ingredient.
run to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs to
form: running to
form: ran to
form: run to
Senses: examples: text: The official report runs to several thousand pages in 12 volumes.
text: The repairs ran to 1,200 euros.
glosses: To reach a particular maximum amount, size, value, etc.
examples: text: My musical tastes don't run to Wagner, I'm afraid.
text: I think my carpentry should run to making a window.
glosses: To be capable of reaching or achieving.
examples: text: She's getting a little old to run to her mother every time she gets in a fight with her friends.
synonyms: turn to
glosses: To go to a responsible person or authority figure for support; to require another to support oneself.
crenelates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crenelate
crenelating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crenelate
crenellates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crenellate
crenellating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crenellate
throw signs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws signs
form: throwing signs
form: threw signs
form: thrown signs
Senses: examples: text: "[…] Cause I be going around wearing red and throwing signs up."
ref: 1996, Scott H. Decker, Barrik Van Winkle, Life in the Gang: Family, Friends, and Violence, page 122:
text: Members of the Folk Nation throw their signs from the right and members of the People Nation will throw signs from the left.
ref: 2000, Thomas Capozzoli, R. Steve McVey, Kids Killing Kids: Managing Violence and Gangs in Schools, page 77:
text: [[…]] of a thirty-year-old pro, a light-skinned brother named Malik “Chilly” Tubbs, who carried gang tattoos and would sometimes throw signs to passing cars.
ref: 2005, F. X. Toole, Million Dollar Baby: Stories from the Corner, page 170:
text: Wearing certain types of jewelry and throwing signs can lead to tragic misidentification as a gang member.
ref: 2006, G. Larry Mays, Juvenile Justice, page 308:
glosses: To make a gesture of group affiliation (especially with a gang) from a distance.
Synonyms: flag
criticizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of criticize
ran up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of run up
running up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of run up
runs up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of run up
misc.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of misc.
pyrolytically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pyrolytic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of pyrolysis
printer's devil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: printer's devils
form: printers' devils
Etymology: Of unclear etymology. The most widely accepted theories are that apprentice printers were often covered in ink, giving them a demonic appearance, or that they were responsible for errors in manuscripts and thus associated with Titivillus, the supposed devil of scribal errors. See Wikipedia for further details.
Senses: examples: text: The latest of the personal magazinettes to come under our observation is The East Side, a peculiarly New York product, of which Zoe Anderson Norris, of 338 East Fifteenth street, is printer's devil […]
ref: 1909, The Independent, volume 67, page 711:
glosses: An apprentice printer.
wikipedia: Printer's devil#Etymology
Titivillus
Derived terms: printer's devilry
price level
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: price levels
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: An index of the average market price of selected goods weighted according to certain criteria.
ran up against
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of run up against
running up against
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of run up against
runs up against
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of run up against
prematurity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prematurities
Etymology: From premature + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The questions of prematurity and low birth weight and the implications for later development are consistent with the theme of risk and vulnerability discussed throughout the book.
ref: 1995, Otfried Spreen, Anthony H. Risser, Dorothy Edgell, Developmental Neuropsychology, page 212:
text: Apnea of prematurity represents a striking disorder of respiratory control.
ref: 2008, Eric C. Eichenwald, “Apnea of Prematurity”, in Dara Brodsky, Mary Ann Ouellette, editors, Primary Care of the Premature Infant, page 19:
text: In Table 8.2, problems of prematurity are second only to congenital abnormalities as the cause of neonatal death.
ref: 2013, Andrew Lyon, “8: Prematurity”, in Jean W. Keeling, editor, Fetal and Neonatal Pathology, page 207:
glosses: The condition of (a baby, etc.) being premature.
examples: text: Those individuals in the third group with 5 to 10 prematurities noted averaged 7 prematurities for every 57 heart beats[…].
ref: 1959, Lawrence E. Lamb, editor, The first International Symposium on Cardiology in Aviation, conducted at the School of Aviation Medicine, 12-13 November, 1959, page 187:
text: Not all patients with occlusal prematurities have trauma from occlusion.
ref: 1990, Irving Glickman, Glickman's Clinical Periodontology, page 723:
text: Studies might compare the accuracy of locating Centric Relation prematurities determined by mounted diagnostic models and the T-Scan.
ref: 2015, Roger Solow, “Chapter 14: Centric Relation Records and T-scan Occlusal Analysis of Centric Relation Prematurities”, in Robert B. Kerstein, editor, Handbook of Research on Computerized Occlusal Analysis Technology, page 666:
glosses: Something that is premature or occurs prematurely.
Synonyms: sense: condition of being premature
word: prematureness
word: earliness
police blotter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: police blotters
Senses: glosses: A register, maintained by the desk sergeant, of people arrested or brought in for questioning to a police station; (UK) charge sheet.
examples: text: We read about his DUI in the police blotter.
text: "If you talk to any of our readers, they'll have a favorite entry in the police blotter," says Nick Ehli, who has been at the newspaper 14 years, seven as managing editor. Everyone who works at the Daily Chronicle has done their shift composing the police blotter at one time or another, since it's a task given to newbies.
ref: 2014 June 18, Jaime Fuller, “All crimes are local: America’s police blotters, indexed. The Fix column.”, in Washington Post, retrieved 27 Apr 2021:
glosses: A newspaper column publishing highlights therefrom.
paronomasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to paronomasia
parasomnia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parasomnias
Etymology: From para- (“above, beyond; abnormal”) + Latin somnus (“sleep”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: Any of several sleep disorders.
Related terms: parasomniac
parasomnic
igil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: igils
Etymology: From Tuvan игил (igil).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A string instrument with a teardrop-shaped body and two strings, played with a bow, originating in Tuvan folk music.
Synonyms: horsehead fiddle
dummy run
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dummy runs
Etymology: dummy (“false”) + run (“trial, test”)
Senses: examples: text: We'll try a dummy run with a small group first, to check that it works correctly.
glosses: A trial or practice before the real attempt.
Synonyms: dry run
fun run
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fun runs
Senses: glosses: A sporting event where people run a certain distance to fundraise for charity rather than for competition.
cordierite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cordierites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A magnesium iron aluminium cyclosilicate.
Hyponyms: iolite
fall in with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls in with
form: falling in with
form: fell in with
form: fallen in with
Senses: examples: text: He has fallen in with a bad lot.
glosses: To join (a group of people).
examples: text: We had not sailed twelve hours before we fell in with a gale, which lasted several days, and we kept under close-reef-topsails and storm-staysails.
ref: 1846, Frederick Marryat, “chapter 4”, in The Privateersman, or One Hundred Years Ago:
glosses: To meet with (something).
examples: text: It seemed like a good idea, so we fell in with it.
glosses: To accept, abide by (a set of generally agreed rules, or a suggestion).
boomeranger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boomerangers
Etymology: From boomerang + -er.
Senses: synonyms: word: boomerang baby
word: boomerang child
word: boomerang kid
glosses: Synonym of boomerang kid.
boomerang baby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boomerang babies
Senses: synonyms: word: boomerang child
word: boomeranger
word: boomerang kid
glosses: Synonym of boomerang kid.
mid youth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of middle youth.
Daveon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage, variant of Davion.
Davion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The modern American usage is possibly transferred from the French surname Davion, based on a Provençal diminutive of David. It is not used as a given name in France.
Senses: glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
sping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spings
Etymology: Blend of spam + ping
Senses: glosses: The use of blogs' trackback functionality to generate link spam.
trackback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trackbacks
form: TrackBack
Etymology: From track + back.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A method to keep track of links to content, especially blog entries.
glosses: A snippet of text joined to an entry from another website linking to it.
Hypernyms: linkback
Coordinate terms: refback
pingback
Related terms: backlink
link spam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: link spams
form: linkspam
Senses: glosses: Links added to a web page for the purpose of spamdexing.
volumizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of volumize
sensical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛnsɪkl̩/
ipa: /ˈsɛnsɪk(ə)l/
ipa: /-sə-/
Forms: form: more sensical
form: most sensical
Etymology: From sense + -ical; later uses are probably a back-formation from nonsensical.
Senses: examples: text: But that, which had more magic for me on this occaſion, was, I confeſs, the very points, which your very ſober, ſenſical people, who are vain of their rationality, would be the leaſt ſatisfied with—the romantic means ſhe uſed to bring this journey of her heart to bear.
ref: 1795, [Samuel Jackson] Pratt, “Letter VIII. To the Same [the Honourable Mrs. B.].”, in Gleanings through Wales, Holland and Westphalia, with Views of Peace and War at Home and Abroad. […], volume I, London: Printed for T[homas] N. Longman, and L. B. Seeley, […], →OCLC, pages 90–91:
text: Neville (filling Rolinda's glass). Just a drop. / Rolinda. For your sake. [Takes a sip. / Neville. Behold the triumph of a physician over his rival! (Drinks a glass of wine.) Brute force succumbs to science! / Rolinda. Don't be nonsensical. / Neville. I'm very sensical. Just a drop! (Empties another glassful.) […]
ref: 1895, B. C. Lease [pseudonym; Benjamin Lease Crozer Griffith], A Bachelor’s Divorce. A Comedy in Three Acts, Boston, Mass.: W[alter] H. Baker, →OCLC; republished in Benjamin L[ease] C[rozer] Griffith, Plays and Monologues, [Pennsylvania, Pa.]: The Penn Publishing Company; printed privately, 1901, →OCLC, Act II, page 35:
text: A nonsensical sentence, then, is one which is inconsistent with S, while a sensical sentence is one which is consistent with S.
ref: 1986, Fred D’Agostino, Chomsky’s System of Ideas, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 189:
text: The tragic condition, which is characterized most notably by the inevitable separation of mortal being from all that is held as valuable, is as dispassionate as a law of nature. It contains no inherent commentary on its stipulations, and no intrinsic propositions concerning whether its effects are sensical or not.
ref: 1998, William Storm, “Tragedy, Tragic, Vision”, in After Dionysus: A Theory of the Tragic, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 41:
text: There I waited, exiled from the realm of sensical thoughts, for Lou's sons to find me.
ref: 2001 June, Alexandra Styron, All the Finest Girls: A Novel, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company; 1st paperback edition, Boston, Mass.: Back Bay Books, Little, Brown and Company, 2002, →ISBN, page 127:
text: So it starts with the sensical, and through shifts in syntax and cadence, goes completely abstract.
ref: 2004, John C. Welchman, quoting Mike Kelley, “Introduction”, in Mike Kelley, edited by John C. Welchman, Minor Histories: Statements, Conversations, Proposals, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, →ISBN, page xxii:
antonyms: illogical
irrational
nonsensical
senseless
glosses: That makes sense; showing internal logic; rational, sensible.
Derived terms: common sense is neither common nor sensical
sensically
non-sensical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more non-sensical
form: most non-sensical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonsensical.
common-sensical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more common-sensical
form: most common-sensical
Senses: examples: text: But plain, rational, common-sensical conversation, uttered by an agreeable girl […], wraps one round with a consciousness of comfort and repose.
ref: 1841, Catherine Gore, Cecil, or, The Adventures of a Coxcomb:
text: Most people seem to take the common-sensical view that or sometimes functions inclusively and sometimes exclusively, and this is the position that the OED takes.
ref: 2008 April 19, Arnold Zwicky, “And/or or both”, in Language Log:
glosses: Alternative form of commonsensical.
royal progress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: royal progresses
Senses: glosses: A tour of their kingdom by a monarch and their retinue and entourage.
crystallizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crystallization
zirconoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zirconoid
double negatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double negative
ammonification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ammonifications
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The formation of ammonia or its compounds from nitrogenous compounds, especially as a result of bacterial decomposition.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The treatment or impregnation of something with ammonia.
Derived terms: photoammonification
unimpassioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unimpassioned
form: most unimpassioned
Etymology: From un- + impassioned.
Senses: glosses: Not impassioned; lacking passion; without emotion.
Derived terms: unimpassionedly
structuralism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: structuralisms
Etymology: From structural + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A theory of sociology that views elements of society as part of a cohesive, self-supporting structure.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A school of biological thought that deals with the law-like behaviour of the structure of organisms and how it can change, emphasising that organisms are wholes, and therefore that change in one part must necessarily take into account the inter-connected nature of the entire organism.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The theory that a human language is a self-contained structure related to other elements which make up its existence.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A school of thought that focuses on exploring the individual elements of consciousness, how they are organized into more complex experiences, and how these mental phenomena correlate with physical events.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In the philosophy of mathematics, a theory that holds that mathematical theories describe structures, and that mathematical objects are exhaustively defined by their place in such structures.
Derived terms: post-structuralism
Related terms: structuralist
transrealism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: trans- REE-ahl-izm
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A literary mode that mixes the techniques of incorporating fantastic elements used in science fiction with the techniques of describing immediate perceptions from naturalistic realism.
Related terms: transrealistic
transrealist
caloron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calorons
Etymology: From Latin calor (“heat”) + -on.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
quantum-field-theory
glosses: In mathematical physics, a finite temperature instanton.
unitard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuː.nɪ.tɑːd/
ipa: /ˈju.nɪˌtɑɹd/
Forms: form: unitards
Etymology: Blend of uni- + leotard.
Senses: examples: text: While Lincoln Kirstein noted that the unitards did show clearly the dancers' lines, he too found them distracting: "Union-suit tights are hard to make look neat, but the line of undergarments shining through continually destroyed the line."
ref: 2007, Leslie Norton, Frederic Franklin, Frederic Franklin: A Biography of the Ballet Star, page 46:
text: The unitard consists of a leotard (a sort of stretchy one-piece bathing suit) attached to a pair of tights, which completely cover the legs. The unitard can be worn by anyone — men and women, boys, girls, and extraordinarily graceful household pets.
ref: 2011, Scott Speck, Evelyn Cisneros, Ballet for Dummies, unnumbered page:
text: Backstage (that is, in the high school locker room) before the show, all the other senior girls were pulling on their red unitards for the jazz piece.
ref: 2011, Jodi Lundgren, Leap, page 73:
glosses: A skin-tight garment covering the torso and the legs, sometimes the arms and feet.
Derived terms: unitarded
this one
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Forms: form: these ones
Senses: examples: text: Which one do you want?
— This one!
glosses: A specified object, thing or person (especially one nearby or known). (This entry is a translation hub.)
examples: text: please note: this one knows nothing about python. if the reader sees something that it is wrong about, they are encouraged to e-mail it. […]
ref: 2024 September 12, natalie[ee] roentgen connolly, “implementing goto statements in python (in under 50 lines)”, in natalieee dot net (blogpost), archived from the original on 30 Aug 2025:
text: step 2: display ¶ this took some time to do first, as this one initially had no idea how to acquire a transparent display. until randomly it found an led panel on aliexpress with holes in between the leds! this seemed like a good way to do this cheaply, so it got some of those to experiment with.
ref: 2024 October 17, sophie raven, “building a visor for unit ⛧-440729”, in 999eagle.moe (blogpost), archived from the original on 14 Nov 2024:
text: I learned that cis heteronormative life wasn’t what I had in mind. More like the the^([sic]) lesbian dream of a cat, a Subaru, a cozy apartment or house together. No white-picket fence and 2.5 kids for this one.
ref: 2025 July 16, Raven Winters, “I've Always Been Gay”, in ravenwinters.org (blogpost), archived from the original on 23 Jul 2025:
coordinate_terms: that one
glosses: Refers to the speaker; I, me.
Related terms: that one
thissun
chromato-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: chromat-
form: chromo-
form: chrom-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”).
Senses: glosses: color
Related terms: chromatic
^W
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From the visual representation of the terminal encoding of the keypress Ctrl-W, the "delete back to whitespace" command in GNU readline, which is commonly available in GNU shells and other command-line utilities.
Senses: examples: text: Yeah, he's a real jerk^W civility-challenged fellow.
text: Well, Mimi, you’re old enough that you should go to parties now, so this should be your last year to tickle feet^W^W trick-or-treat.
glosses: Delete that last word.
Related terms: ^H
in Minecraft
just kidding
deep six
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deep sixes
form: deep sixing
form: deep sixed
form: deep sixed
form: deep-six
Etymology: Attested since the 1920s as a noun, most likely from the nautical cry “by the deep six” indicating a depth of 6 fathoms (36 feet, 11 metres) as measured by a sounding line (a depth at which something thrown overboard would be difficult to recover), though possibly also a reference to the common depth of graves (six feet). Attested since the 1950s as a verb.
Senses: examples: text: They had put many hundreds of hours into the project before it was deep-sixed by management.
text: We wonder why that mild-mannered woman we met at the faculty mixer was on the committee that came close to deep-sixing the career of a liberal professor who did nothing wrong.
ref: 2021, John H. McWhorter, chapter 2, in Woke Racism, New York: Forum, →ISBN:
glosses: To discard, get rid of, or cancel; to completely put an end to something.
deep six
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the deep six
Etymology: Attested since the 1920s as a noun, most likely from the nautical cry “by the deep six” indicating a depth of 6 fathoms (36 feet, 11 metres) as measured by a sounding line (a depth at which something thrown overboard would be difficult to recover), though possibly also a reference to the common depth of graves (six feet). Attested since the 1950s as a verb.
Senses: examples: text: Otherwise when Don got in trouble he might have really got the deep six. He had a pretty level head, though, and I guess that's what saved him.
ref: 1950, Boys' Life, page 21:
text: I look at Kenny who looks at Jimmy...the three of us join Colm; we overpower Ingy and give him the deep six.
ref: 2011, Nine Hundred Nights, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 132:
text: Aaron was sitting up in the backseat poking his fingers at his Game Boy, behaving fairly decently since he'd been warned that if he went into any kind of tantrum or mood, the Game Boy got the deep six.
ref: 2014, Douglas Clegg, The Children's Hour: A Supernatural Thriller, Alkemara Press, →ISBN:
text: The chief named Ape—pretty good name, too—said, “This guy's bothering you, Pan, Happy'll give him the deep six.” “Oh, no,” the monkey said.
ref: 2017, Jay Franklin, Richard Wormser, John G. Schneider, The Comic Novel MEGAPACK, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 153:
glosses: Ejection, discardment or destruction.
examples: text: The discretion of social conversation, even among friends, is exceeded only by the discretion of “the deep six,” that grave wherein nothing is mentioned at all.
ref: 2004, Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, New Directions Publishing, →ISBN:
text: Between the Brits and the Maharajas, there's pretty good reason to believe that at least 100,000 tigers got the deep six over the past hundred years.
ref: 2007, Michael Tougias, When Man is the Prey: True Stories of Animals Attacking Humans, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 150:
text: Your second appointment is 15 minutes late, so you chip away at your delay reading. You scan contents and tear out articles you want to keep. Wham! The rest goes into the deep six.
ref: 2008, Michael Dobson, Roy Alexander, Real-World Time Management, AMACOM, →ISBN, page 26:
text: Down in the deep six with eyes frozen till Judgment Day. There they lie, encased in ice beneath the seas like statues of stone awaiting the Day of Judgment to blast them free.
ref: 2011, Ralph Ellison, Juneteenth: A Novel, Vintage, →ISBN, page 103:
glosses: The grave or death; also, the (notional) place where something is discarded.
Related terms: Davy Jones's locker
eighty-six
hit into the long grass
pull the plug
six feet under
hypermetamorphosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypermetamorphoses
Etymology: From hyper- + metamorphosis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: hypermetamorphism
glosses: A kind of complete metamorphosis in which the different larval instars represent two or more different forms of larva.
examples: text: The features of Kluver-Bucy syndrome include visual agnosia, hypermetamorphosis (distortion of objects), hypersexuality, language disorder and aphasia, hyperorality, placidity, flat affect, and memory dysfunction.
ref: 1995, J Millichap, “Kluver-Bucy Syndrome Following Heat Stroke”, in Pediatric Neurolog Briefs:
topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
synonyms: utilization behavior
glosses: A neurobehavioral disorder that involves patients grabbing objects in view and starting the appropriate behavior associated with it at an inappropriate time.
riflery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rifle + -ry.
Senses: glosses: The practice of firing a rifle, especially in precision target shooting.
trigger finger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trigger fingers
Etymology: From trigger + finger.
Senses: glosses: a finger used in pulling the trigger of a firearm
glosses: the forefinger
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: difficulty encountered in finger flexion or extension caused by the narrowing of the sheath that surrounds that finger's tendon
Derived terms: itchy trigger finger
come upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes upon
form: coming upon
form: came upon
form: come upon
Senses: examples: text: We came upon the skeleton while we were hiking.
text: Kala sometimes talked with the older females about her young hopeful, but none of them could understand how a child could be so slow and backward in learning to care for itself. Why, it could not even find food alone, and more than twelve moons had passed since Kala had come upon it.
ref: 1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 5, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, June 1914, →OCLC:
synonyms: come across
encounter
run across
stumble upon
glosses: To discover or find, especially by chance or accident.
examples: text: I pray no harm will come upon you.
glosses: To befall; to affect; to happen to.
Derived terms: come upon the parish
come upon the town
stumble upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stumbles upon
form: stumbling upon
form: stumbled upon
form: stumbled upon
Senses: examples: text: Underneath a black cliff where the incoming tide smashed on the shingle, they stumbled upon the mail hood of Hrothgar's murdered vassal.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 35:
text: During the course of his looking into Abedin’s S.G.E. status, the senator stumbled upon an O.I.G. “criminal” inquiry, commenced in October 2013, about whether Abedin knowingly got paid for hours she did not work while she was on vacation and maternity leave.
ref: 2016 January 31, “Is Huma Abedin Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon or Her Next Big Problem?”, in Vanity Fair, retrieved 21 Jan 2016:
glosses: To discover or find something by accident.
glosses: To meet somebody by chance.
Synonyms: come across
come upon
stumble across
stumble on
topographie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topographies
Senses: examples: ref: 1600, Titus Livius, “A Svmmarie Collected by Iohn Bartholmew Marlianus, A Gentleman of Millaine, Tovching the Topographie of Rome in Ancient Time”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie, page 1347:
text: Hauing now related of the Topographie and Policy of France, it remayneth I ſpeake ſomewhat of the Oeconomy,[…]
ref: 1605, Robert Dallington, A Method For Trauell. Shewed by Taking the View of France As It ſtood in the Yeare of Our Lord 1598, page R2:
text: I will not trouble the Reader with the topographie of theſe townes, it is out of queſtion they were neere bordering cities.
ref: 1615, Nicholas Byfield, chapter 4, in An exposition upon the opistle to the Collosians, page 194:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of topography.
pre-anal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + anal.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of preanal.
preanal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-anal
Etymology: From pre- + anal.
Senses: examples: a preanal gland, the preanal length of the carapo
glosses: Situated in front of, or measured from in front of, the anus; anterior to the anus.
unmentionably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unmentionably
form: most unmentionably
Etymology: From unmentionable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: They sat down and had one of their old chummy talks until an unmentionably late hour.
glosses: In an unmentionable way; indescribably, unutterably, unspeakably.
mentionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mentionable
form: most mentionable
Etymology: From mention + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The study can be divided into seven mentionable characteristics.
glosses: Important or worthy of note.
examples: text: But even in 1776, this concept was thought to be mentionable only as the consequence of a bitter struggle.
ref: 2005, Christopher Hitchens, Letters To A Young Contrarian, page 25:
glosses: Suitable to be openly talked about, or mentioned; not taboo.
Synonyms: sense: worthy of note
word: eminent
word: noteworthy
word: notable
sense: not taboo
word: nontaboo
Derived terms: unmentionable
sonata form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A form of classical music consisting of a single movement divided into three main sections, the exposition, development and recapitulation, sometimes followed by a coda.
screw drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screw drives
Senses: glosses: A slot in the head of a screw, of various shapes, enabling a screwdriver to lock into the screw.
gratinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gratinates
form: gratinating
form: gratinated
form: gratinated
Etymology: From gratin + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French gratiner.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To bake so as to form a gratin.
edificate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: edificates
form: edificating
form: edificated
form: edificated
Etymology: From Latin aedifico.
Senses: examples: text: Vides my Fili, what a little nous Suffices to edificate a house!
ref: 1899, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero:
text: 'Madame, I do not edificate souls.'
ref: 1904, Warwick Deeping, Love Among the Ruins, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, page 119:
text: proembryo showing the suspensor growth through transversal mitoses, and the three tiers that will edificate the embryo;
ref: 2012 December 6, Roger Buvat, Ontogeny, Cell Differentiation, and Structure of Vascular Plants, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 78:
glosses: to build
recapitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recapitates
form: recapitating
form: recapitated
form: recapitated
Etymology: Blend of re- + decapitate
Senses: examples: text: The conservator-restorer was able to recapitate the fallen statue whose head had broken off.
text: He who has once been decapitated, can not be recapitated.
ref: 1973, Samael Aun Weor, Aztec Christic Magic, →ISBN, page 33:
glosses: To furnish with a head again; to reattach a head to.
Derived terms: recapitation
recapitated
misogyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misogynes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of misogyn.
knobbly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒbəli
Forms: form: knobblier
form: knobbliest
Etymology: From knobble + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having a covering of small knobs.
Derived terms: knobblies
knobbliness
Related terms: knobby