cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæpɚ/
Forms: form: mappers
Etymology: From map + -er.
Senses: synonyms: cartographer
glosses: One who produces a map.
examples: text: As he churned out early versions of the Quake III engine, the mappers and artists felt adrift, with no direction on what to pursue.
ref: 2003, David Kushner, Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture:
topics: video-games
glosses: A designer of levels for video games.
examples: text: Throughout the Famicom's life span, Nintendo produced several ASIC mappers, which grew in capability and specialty, allowing the Famicom to break many of its own hardware rules.
ref: 2015, Nathan Altice, I Am Error: The Nintendo Family Computer/Entertainment System Platform:
topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A software or hardware component that performs a mapping.
Derived terms: craniomapper
lightning mapper
mind mapper
portmapper
turns down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of turn down
turning down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of turn down
turned down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of turn down
glosses: past participle of turn down
myosotis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌɪəˈsəʊtɪs/
Forms: form: myosotises
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin myosōtis, from Koine Ancient Greek μυοσωτίς (muosōtís, literally “ears of a mouse”), from genitive of μῦς (mûs, “mouse”) and nominative plural of οὖς (oûs, “ear”).
Senses: examples: text: Cut all the myosotis there is.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 87
text: How would he, then, describe Tilly's manner and appearance at breakfast ? Peregrine shrugged and said it was much as usual; she was gay and very pretty in her dirndl skirt and blue and yellow silk apron embroidered with myosotis.
ref: 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 13, in Crime out of Mind:
glosses: Any plant of the genus Myosotis, the forget-me-nots.
Related terms: myosote
doating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: "Nowadays, the young people sit while their elders stand!" the Abbot succinctly said, riveting a curly-pated enfant de coeur lolling coxcombically beneath the nose of a doating Statilia.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 88
glosses: present participle and gerund of doat; doting
doating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doatings
Senses: examples: text: […] infinite love, and grace, and condescension, and fatherly yearnings, and conjugal doatings […]
ref: 1865, The Sunday Magazine, page 98:
glosses: Obsolete form of doting.
enfant de coeur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enfants de coeur
form: enfant de cœur
Etymology: Borrowed from French enfant de chœur.
Senses: examples: text: "Nowadays, the young people sit while their elders stand!" the Abbot succinctly said, riveting a curly-pated enfant de coeur lolling coxcombically beneath the nose of a doating Statilia.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page #88
glosses: A child who sings in a choir, typically quiet and well-behaved.
Synonyms: chorister
choirboy
flatland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflatlənd/
ipa: /ˈflatland/
Forms: form: flatlands
Etymology: From flat + land.
Senses: examples: text: After crossing the flatlands Lincoln, with its magnificent hilltop cathedral, comes into view before we pull into the station, with its lovely Tudor revival-style buildings.
ref: 2024 October 30, Paul Bigland, “The heat is on... and will the railway fray?”, in RAIL, number 1021, page 48:
glosses: Synonym of plain (“land of relatively constant altitude”).
synonyms: word: plain
extra: land of relatively constant altitude
examples: text: Back then, at eighteen, in her humble bed-sit, in Dublin's 'flatland', she was lonely.
ref: 2005, Esme Conway, Into Angels, page 18:
glosses: An urban region with many flats or apartments to rent.
Derived terms: flatlander
coxcombically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From coxcombical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Nowadays, the young people sit while their elders stand!" the Abbot succinctly said, riveting a curly-pated enfant de coeur lolling coxcombically beneath the nose of a doating Statilia.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 88
glosses: in the manner of a coxcomb
flat-out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flat out.
flat-out
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Unlike Bing, GPT-4 usually flat-out refused to take the bait when I tried to get it to talk about consciousness, or get it to provide instructions for illegal or immoral activities, and it treated sensitive queries with kid gloves and nuance.
ref: 2023 March 15, Kevin Roose, “GPT-4 Is Exciting and Scary”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of flat out.
flatware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flatwares
Etymology: From flat + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: A girl without a nightgown or bathing suit. Who had never used two pieces of flatware to eat.
ref: 2003, Toni Morrison, Love, Vintage (2016), page 75:
text: Flatware should not be allowed to dry between presoaking and washing. It should be washed with the handles down and stored with the handles up.
ref: 2007, Benjamin W. Pearce, Senior Living Communities, page 118:
glosses: Eating utensils; cutlery, such as forks, knives and spoons.
glosses: Plates, dishes and other relatively flat crockery.
Coordinate terms: hollowware
language barrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: language barriers
Senses: glosses: A conceptual barrier to effective communication, occurring when people who speak different languages attempt to communicate with each other.
Related terms: language border
flavorful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flavorful
form: most flavorful
form: flavourful
Etymology: From flavor + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Guokui, a Chinese flatbread, stars at this new Greenwich Village spot. A big, crisp, nicely burnished oval that’s baked in a clay oven, this style of guokui comes with an improbably thin layer of filling that packs a flavorful punch.
ref: 2020 August 11, Florence Fabricant, “A Filled Chinese Flatbread Comes to Manhattan”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2020, Off the Menu:
glosses: Full of flavor.
Synonyms: flavorous
flavorsome
Derived terms: flavorfully
flavourful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flavourful
form: most flavourful
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of flavorful.
Derived terms: flavourfully
utility room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: utility rooms
Senses: glosses: A room that contains typically washing machine, tumble dryer, and other appliances which, in houses without such a room, would be in the kitchen or laundry.
flavorsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: flāvərsəm
ipa: /ˈfleɪvɚsəm/
ipa: /ˈfleɪvəsəm/
rhymes: -eɪvə(ɹ)səm
Forms: form: more flavorsome
form: most flavorsome
form: flavoursome
Etymology: From flavor + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Why do you prefer full‐bodied, smooth wines? I prefer them because they are flavorsome and rich.
ref: 2015, David A. Winter, Nick Reed, The Wiley Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology:
glosses: Characterised or marked by flavor(s); flavorful.
Synonyms: flavorful
flavorous
Derived terms: flavorsomely
flavorsomeness
unflavorsome
flavoursome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flavoursome
form: most flavoursome
Etymology: From flavour + -some.
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of flavorsome.
Derived terms: flavoursomeness
unflavoursome
fleabag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfliˌbæɡ/
Forms: form: fleabags
form: flea bag
form: flea-bag
Etymology: From flea + bag.
Senses: glosses: A bed or sleeping bag.
examples: text: ‘[E]veryone knows that Charlie […] takes little girls up to a room in that horrible flea-bag; but he's a respectable man just the same.’
ref: 1973, Christina Stead, The Little Hotel, Text Classics, published 2016, page 184:
text: [W]hat Olin could do was take himself on out of the agent's office at a rapid hike and thank God all the way back to the fleabag where he worked that Mike Enslin had decided not to sue either the hotel or Olin for negligence.
ref: 1999, Stephen King, “1408”, in Everything's Eventual, published 2002:
glosses: A place of shabby lodging, particularly a filthy hotel or run-down apartment.
examples: text: He's become a real fleabag recently. Time for a bath!
glosses: An unkempt mammal.
examples: text: Get out of the way, you fleabag!
glosses: A mammal whom the speaker dislikes.
meadowrue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meadowrues
form: meadow-rue
form: meadow rue
Etymology: From meadow + rue.
Senses: examples: text: He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 91
glosses: A plant (any plant of genus Thalictrum), also known as thalictrum
Derived terms: taxonomic: Thalictrum alpinum
word: alpine meadowrue)
taxonomic: Thalictrum heliophilum
word: cathedral meadowrue
taxonomic: Thalictrum delavayi
word: Chinese meadowrue
taxonomic: Thalictrum flavum
word: common meadowrue
taxonomic: Thalictrum cooleyi
word: Cooley's meadowrue
taxonomic: Thalictrum kiusianum
word: dwarf meadowrue
taxonomic: Thalictrum dioicum
word: early meadowrue
taxonomic: Thalictrum fendleri
word: Fendler's meadowrue
taxonomic: Thalictrum sparsiflorum
word: fewflower meadow-rue
taxonomic: Thalictrum aquilegiifolium
word: greater meadowrue
taxonomic: Thalictrum kiusianum
word: Kyushu meadowrue
taxonomic: Thalictrum rochebruneanum
word: lavender mist meadowrue
taxonomic: Thalictrum minus
word: lesser meadowrue
taxonomic: Thalictrum clavatum
word: mountain meadowrue
taxonomic: Thalictrum dasycarpum
word: purple meadowrue
taxonomic: Thalictrum polycarpum
word: tall meadowrue
taxonomic: Thalictrum revolutum
word: waxyleaf meadowrue
taxonomic: Thalictrum occidentale
word: western meadowrue
taxonomic: Thalictrum flavum
word: yellow meadowrue
flea-bitten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flea-bitten
form: most flea-bitten
Senses: glosses: Infested with fleas
glosses: Decrepit or dilapidated
Synonyms: flea-ridden
orchis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.kɪs/
ipa: /ˈɔɹ.kɪs/
Forms: form: orchises
form: orchides
form: orchisses
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin orchis, from Ancient Greek ὄρχις (órkhis, “testicle”).
Senses: examples: text: [T]heir maid has dreſſed their hats with cowſlips, orchiſſes, cuckoo-flowers, and golden-cups—[…]
ref: 1792, Charlotte Smith, “Letter XIV. To Miss Waverly.”, in Desmond. […], volume II, London: […] G[eorge,] G[eorge,] J[ohn] and J[ames] Robinson, […], →OCLC, page 195:
text: In spring, what a place it was for wild flowers!―as Lucy Raymond and her brothers well knew, having often brought home thence great bunches of dielytras and convallarias and orchises; and at any time some bright blossoms were generally to be found gleaming through the shade.
ref: 1871, Agnes Maule Machar, Lucy Raymond Or, The Children's Watchword, page 25:
text: He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 91
glosses: An orchid; now specifically, a plant of the genus Orchis.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A testis.
Derived terms: diorchic
early spring orchis
musk orchis
parorchis
showy orchis
spotted orchis
Related terms: orchid
fleecer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fleecers
Etymology: From fleece + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who fleeces; a swindler
unregenerate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unregenerate
form: most unregenerate
Etymology: From un- + regenerate.
Senses: examples: text: The unregenerate human state.
glosses: Which cannot be transformed in mind and spirit.
glosses: Stubborn.
Related terms: unregeneracy
unregenerated
fleshed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɛʃt/
rhymes: -ɛʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flesh
fleshed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɛʃt/
rhymes: -ɛʃt
Forms: form: more fleshed
form: most fleshed
Senses: glosses: Having flesh; corpulent.
glosses: Having a specified form of flesh or body.
Derived terms: full-fleshed
overfleshed
underfleshed
unfleshed
white-fleshed sweet potato
multipurpose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌltipɝpəs/
Forms: form: multi-purpose
Etymology: From multi- + purpose.
Senses: examples: text: Arguably the most potent version of that meme merges the heatmaps with a multipurpose version of the IQ bell curve, populated with three “wojaks” on the stupid, middlebrow, and supersmart bits of that curve.
The liberal heatmap is paired with the figure in the meaty middle of the graph, while the conservative one fits with the narrower extremes of the IQ spectrum.
ref: 2025 March 3, Frank Jacobs and Stephen Johnson, “The story behind the internet’s most viral (and misunderstood) political meme”, in Big Think, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2025:
synonyms: multiuse
glosses: Designed or intended to fit more than one type of function or application; having multiple uses.
Derived terms: MPV
multipurposeful
multipurposeness
Related terms: multitool
Karelian pasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Karelian pasties
Senses: examples: William Jones, How to Move to Finland: A Step-by-Step Guide
Finnish cuisine, often influenced by its natural surroundings, is a celebration of local flavors. From hearty Karelian pasties to the renowned squeaky cheese, you'll find a variety of dishes […]
glosses: A traditional pasty from Karelia, usually with a rye crust and now most often eaten with a mixture of boiled eggs and butter.
Synonyms: Karelian pie
fleshly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fleshly
form: most fleshly
Etymology: From Middle English fleschly, from Old English flǣsċlīċe; equivalent to flesh + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Syr said Launcelot ye saye that that good knyȝt is my sone That ouȝtest thow to knowe and no man better said the good man / For thow knewest the doughter of kyng Pelles flesshely / and on her thow begattest Galahad / And that was he that at the feest of Pentecost satte in the sege peryllous
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “ij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XV:
text: And the drunkard is with drink. And the ploughman is with his oxen. And the inhabitant of Ulverton doth loll fleshly abed.
ref: 1992, Adam Thorpe, Ulverton, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, published 1994, page 24:
glosses: In a sensual way; in a sexual way; carnally.
long-span
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more long-span
form: most long-span
Senses: glosses: Spanning a long period of time.
fleurs-de-lis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fleur-de-lis
contract killer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contract killers
Senses: synonyms: hitperson
glosses: A person who contracts to kill a specified person for an agreed sum of money.
Related terms: contract killing
murder-for-hire
hit list
flied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: simple past and past participle of fly (hit a fly ball)
flimflam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɪmflæm/
Forms: form: flimflams
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flim-flam.
flimflam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɪmflæm/
Forms: form: flimflams
form: flimflamming
form: flimflammed
form: flimflammed
Senses: glosses: To swindle or cheat.
Derived terms: flimflammer
flimflammery
ragged robin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ragged robins
form: ragged robbin
form: ragged-robin
Etymology: From ragged + robin, probably because of the untidy appearance of its petals.
Senses: examples: text: Paul came back and threaded daisies in her jet black hair, big spangles of white and yellow, and just a pink touch of ragged robbin.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 6”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
text: He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.
ref: 1919,Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 91
glosses: A type of wild campion (Silene flos-cuculi, syn. Lychnis flos-cuculi), in the family Caryophyllaceae, which grows across Europe and has pink flowers.
script supervisor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: script supervisors
Senses: synonyms: continuity supervisor
glosses: A member of a film crew responsible for maintaining the film's internal continuity and for marking the production unit's daily progress in shooting the film's screenplay.
Ostrobothnia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Ostrobothnia, from Swedish Österbotten, from öster (“eastern”) + botten (“bottom, basin”).
Senses: glosses: A region of Finland, on the east coast of the Gulf of Bothnia.
glosses: A historical province of Finland.
glosses: A historical province of Sweden.
Synonyms: East Bothnia
Derived terms: Central Ostrobothnia
Central Ostrobothnian
North Ostrobothnia
North Ostrobothnian
Ostrobothnian
South Ostrobothnia
South Ostrobothnian
Related terms: Västerbotten
West Bothnia
voluntary work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Work done voluntarily.
Related terms: community service
bombasine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bombasines
Senses: examples: text: I begin now to wish I'd worn my little bombasine
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 93
glosses: Alternative form of bombazine.
turns off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of turn off
turning off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of turn off
turned off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of turn off
hickup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hickups
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of hiccup.
hickup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hickups
form: hickuping
form: hickupping
form: hickuped
form: hickuped
form: hickupped
form: hickupped
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of hiccup.
turns up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of turn up
turning up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of turn up
stim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: stims
Etymology: Clipping of stimulation and stimulate.
Senses: examples: text: “Electric therapy has been used in medicine for thousands of years,” says Ken Rusche, director of Wellington Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Center, a physical therapist and athletic trainer. “[…] Electrical stim is being used in the field of medicine for rehabilitation and strengthening after injuries. […]”
ref: 1986 January, Joan Fox, “Can You Get Tanned and Trim Without Sun or Exercise?”, in Cincinnati, volume 19, number 4, →ISSN, page 102:
glosses: Sensory stimulation.
examples: text: Autistic people often stim with the help of technologies such as music and stim toys or tools to mediate between inner worlds and outer environments that may over/underwhelm us.
ref: 2021, Erin Felepchuk, Disability Studies Quarterly:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
synonyms: self-stimulation
self-stim
qualifier: autism
glosses: Any repetitive self-stimulatory behavior (e.g. hand flapping, head banging, repeating noises or words), frequent in autistic people.
topics: medicine
obstetrics
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Any drug that stimulates a woman's ovaries to produce eggs.
Derived terms: e-stim
self-stim
stim board
stim toy
stim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: stims
form: stimming
form: stimmed
form: stimmed
Etymology: Clipping of stimulation and stimulate.
Senses: examples: text: Autistic people often stim with the help of technologies such as music and stim toys or tools to mediate between inner worlds and outer environments that may over/underwhelm us.
ref: 2021, Erin Felepchuk, Disability Studies Quarterly:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: To perform such a repetitive self-stimulatory action.
Derived terms: self-stim
stimmer
stim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: stims
Etymology: Clipping of stimulant.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of stimulant (“drug”).
synonyms: word: stimulant
extra: drug
Derived terms: stimfap
stim pack
stim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: stims
Etymology: Likely related to Scots stime; both perhaps from Old English scima (“shine”).
Senses: examples: text: That boy hasn't a stim of common sense.
glosses: A whit or jot; the least amount.
raw_tags: in the negative
turned up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of turn up
anagogical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anagogical
form: most anagogical
Senses: glosses: anagogic
Derived terms: anagogically
anagogic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anagogic
form: most anagogic
Etymology: From anagoge + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or employing an anagoge
Synonyms: anagogical
ascetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ascetical
form: most ascetical
Etymology: From ascetic + -al.
Senses: glosses: ascetic
chrysolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪs.əˌlaɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɹɪs.əˌlaɪt/
Forms: form: chrysolites
Etymology: From Middle English crisolite, from Old French crisolite, from Medieval Latin crisolitus, Latin chrȳsolithus, from Ancient Greek χρῡσόλιθος (khrūsólithos), from χρῡσός (khrūsós, “gold”) + λίθος (líthos, “stone”). By surface analysis, chryso- (“pertaining to gold”) + -lite (“pertaining to rocks, minerals”).
Senses: examples: text: Fran. Rueus[…]say as much of the chrysolite, a friend of wisdome, an enemy to folly.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection iii:
text: And before he died, Taran-Ish had scrawled upon the altar of chrysolite with coarse shaky strokes the sign of DOOM.
ref: 1920, H. P. Lovecraft, The Doom that Came to Sarnath:
text: A piece of marigold or bay leaf was imbedded in the metal, and over it a carbuncle or chrysolite was placed.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 155:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Originally, any of various green-coloured gems; later specifically peridot.
Derived terms: chrysolite commune
chrysolite de Saxe
chrysolite du Brésil
chrysolite du cap
iron chrysolite
iron manganese chrysolite
chrysolite of Brazil
chrysolite ordinaire
chrysolite orientale
titaniferous chrysolite
white chrysolite
chrysolite des volcans
Cistercian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sɪsˈtɜː(ɹ)ʃən/
/sɪsˈtɜː(ɹ)ʃi.ən/
Forms: form: Cistercians
Etymology: From French cistercien, from Latin Cistercium (“Cîteaux”), after the place where the order was founded.
Senses: glosses: A member of a monastic order which follows the Benedictine rule and emphasizes silent contemplative prayer.
Synonyms: white monk
Hypernyms: Benedictine
Hyponyms: Trappist
Cistercian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /sɪsˈtɜː(ɹ)ʃən/
/sɪsˈtɜː(ɹ)ʃi.ən/
Forms: form: more Cistercian
form: most Cistercian
Etymology: From French cistercien, from Latin Cistercium (“Cîteaux”), after the place where the order was founded.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to or characteristic of the Cistercian Order and its members.
Mannerist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mannerist
form: most Mannerist
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: Of or relating to Mannerism.
Mannerist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mannerists
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: An artist who works in the style of Mannerism.
Mannerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A style of art developed at the end of the High Renaissance, characterized by the deliberate distortion and exaggeration of perspective and especially the elongation of figures.
Related terms: Mannerist
overluxuriant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overluxuriant
form: most overluxuriant
Etymology: From over- + luxuriant.
Senses: glosses: Excessively luxuriant
patristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From patri- + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: The word modern was a term of reproach used by patristic humanists against the medieval schoolmen who developed the new logic and physics.
ref: 1962, Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy, Canada: University of Toronto Press, page 80:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the fathers of the early Christian church, especially their writings.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to a lineage.
Derived terms: patristically
patristic anthology
patristicism
unpatristic
Related terms: matristic
matristics
patristical
patristics
sardius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sardiuses
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:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: sard
Schoolmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Schoolman
Schoolman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schoolmen
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of schoolman.
schoolman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schoolmen
Etymology: From Middle English scoleman (attested in names), from Old English scōlman, scōlmann (“student, scholar”), equivalent to school + -man.
Senses: examples: text: 1597, Francis Bacon, Essays, London: John Jaggard, 1613, “Of Studies,”
So if a mans wit be wandering, let him study Mathematicks; if his wit be not apt to distinguish, or finde difference, let him study the Schoole-men; if it be not apt to beat over matters, and to find out resemblances, let him study Lawyers cases. So every defect of the mind may have speciall receit.
text: 1764, James Murray, The History of Religion, 2nd edition, London: C. Henderson et al., Volume 1, Chapter 1, p. 65,
Purgatory was a device of St. Austin’s in this century; but he both said and unsaid it, and at last, like a wise schoolman, left it doubtful.
text: If that I did not know philosophy
To be of all our vanities the motliest,
The merest word that ever fool’d the ear
From out the schoolman’s jargon, I should deem
The golden secret, the sought “Kalon,” found,
And seated in my soul.
ref: 1817, Lord Byron, Manfred, London: John Murray, act III, scene 1, page 55:
text: 1913, Theodore Roosevelt, Autobiography, Appendix, “Socialism,”
Too many thoroughly well-meaning men and women in the America of to-day glibly repeat and accept—much as medieval schoolmen repeated and accepted authorized dogma in their day—various assumptions and speculations by Marx and others which by the lapse of time and by actual experiment have been shown to possess not one shred of value.
glosses: A medieval writer, scholar or teacher of the subjects taught at early European universities (such as theology, metaphysics and logic); a scholastic.
cyberterrorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyber-terrorism
form: cyber terrorism
Etymology: From cyber- + terrorism.
Senses: examples: text: Youths from California, Michigan and Israel were also found to have discussed cyberterrorism in some chat rooms and are suspected of trying to inject a malicious computer code into the Web servers that form the communications backbone of the Internet, Mr. McLaughlin said.
ref: 2001 January 15, Victoria Shannon, quoting Matt McLaughlin, “Internet Conspiracy”, in International Herald Tribune, →ISSN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The deliberate, large-scale disruption of networks of computers, especially of computers attached to the Internet, by means of viruses etc.
Related terms: cyberattack
cyberdefense
cyberextortion
cyberpower
cybersafety
cybersecurity
cyberspace
cyberwar
cyberwarfare
wheel of fortune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwiːl‿əv ˈfɔːt͡ʃuːn/
note: wine–whine merger
ipa: /ˌʍiːl-/
ipa: /ˌwil‿əv ˈfoɹt͡ʃun/
ipa: /-t͡ʃən/
note: wine–whine merger
ipa: /ˌʍil-/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t͡ʃuːn
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tʃən
Forms: form: wheels of fortune
Etymology: From Wheel of Fortune, referring to the spinning of the Roman goddess Fortuna’s wheel which determined people’s fortunes.
Senses: topics: gambling
games
glosses: A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally to determine, by its stopping position, whether a gambler will receive one of the prizes marked around its circumference.
wheel of fortune
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwiːl‿əv ˈfɔːt͡ʃuːn/
note: wine–whine merger
ipa: /ˌʍiːl-/
ipa: /ˌwil‿əv ˈfoɹt͡ʃun/
ipa: /-t͡ʃən/
note: wine–whine merger
ipa: /ˌʍil-/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t͡ʃuːn
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tʃən
Etymology: From Wheel of Fortune, referring to the spinning of the Roman goddess Fortuna’s wheel which determined people’s fortunes.
Senses: examples: text: The vvheel of fortune turns inceſſantly round, and vvho can ſay vvithin himſelf I ſhall to day be uppermoſt.
ref: 1760, Oliver Goldsmith, “Letter VII. From Lien Chi Altangi, to Fum Hoam, First President of the Ceremonial Academy at Pekin, in China.”, in The Citizen of the World; or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, […], volume I, London: […] [F]or the author; and sold by J. Newbery and W. Bristow, […]; J. Leake and W. Frederick, […]; B. Collins, […]; and A. M. Smart and Co. […], published 1762, →OCLC, page 22:
text: As a medievalist Ignatius believed in the rota Fortunae, or wheel of fortune, a central concept in De Consolatione Philosophiae, the philosophical work which had laid foundation for medieval thought. […] Was his wheel rapidly spinning downward?
ref: 1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, chapter 2, in A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN, section I, page 27:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Wheel of Fortune (“the mythological wheel turned randomly by Fortuna, the Roman goddess of fate, fortune, and luck, to determine people's fortunes which were thus unpredictable”).
true-love-knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: true-love-knots
Senses: examples: text: As in a stupor, forging headlong forward she was overtaken in the vicinity of Valopolis by the evening voiture of Madame Mimosa, the lady's monogram, "Kiki," wreathed in true-love-knots, emblazoning triply the doors and rear.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 101
glosses: A bracelet which partners both wear to show their love.
prelatial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From prelate + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: From the pulpit festooned fancifully in prelatial purple the benediction of Cardinal Doppio-Mignoni would shortly fall.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 106
glosses: Pertaining to a prelate
in between
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: in-between
Etymology: Univerbation of in + between, perhaps in imitation of similar phrases as in the middle of, in the midst of, etc.
Senses: examples: text: Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
ref: 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
glosses: Between them.
in between
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: in-between
Etymology: Univerbation of in + between, perhaps in imitation of similar phrases as in the middle of, in the midst of, etc.
Senses: glosses: Between.
glosses: In the space between.
Derived terms: inbetweener
inbetweening
in-between
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + between.
Senses: glosses: Lying between; neither one thing nor the other; intermediary.
Derived terms: in-betweeny
inbetweening
in-between
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: in-betweens
Etymology: From in- + between.
Senses: synonyms: interim
glosses: An interval or intervening time.
glosses: One who intervenes.
glosses: Synonym of inbetweener (“a person who or thing that falls between different groups or characteristics”).
synonyms: word: inbetweener
extra: a person who or thing that falls between different groups or characteristics
plex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plexes
Etymology: Ultimately from -plex, from Latin plectere
Senses: examples: text: Most new housing has taken the form of single-family dwellings, not plexes, and levels of home ownership have risen steadily.
ref: 2001, Thomas F. McIlwraith, Edward K. Muller, North America: The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent, page 457:
text: English-style terraced houses or the cheaper type of Montreal plexes that opened directly onto the street made such a way of life possible, but just barely.
ref: 2004, Richard Harris, Creeping Conformity: How Canada Became Suburban, 1900-1960, page 34:
glosses: A building, such as a duplex or triplex, with a number of apartments (typically two to four) that all open directly to the outside.
examples: text: Striped volumes of mirrored plexes can survive failure of up to half of their disks.
ref: 2002, Paul Massiglia, Highly Available Storage for Windows Servers, page 60:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A designated portion of a disk, usually set up to mirror some of the contents.
examples: text: If a child in a data relationship has more than one parent, the relationship cannot be described as a tree or hierarchical structure. Instead it is described as a ... plex structure.
ref: 1975, James Martin, Computer Data-Base Organization, pages 89-99:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A tree-like structure in which each child can have multiple parents.
glosses: Clipping of multiplex.
attacking zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attacking zones
Senses: topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: From one team's point of view, the area between the blue line of the other team's half of the rink and the end board behind the other team's goal.
Synonyms: offensive zone
alls
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːlz/
rhymes: -ɔːlz
Senses: examples: text: 'cause alls it really does is make our love grow stronger
ref: 2015, Eminem, Normal:
glosses: All.
Derived terms: you-alls
alls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːlz/
rhymes: -ɔːlz
Senses: glosses: plural of all
aversive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv
Forms: form: more aversive
form: most aversive
Senses: examples: text: If it is aversive to the animal and discourages behavior, it is a punishment. If it seems aversive to you but is not aversive to the animal, then it is not an effective punishment. In fact, technically, it's not even a punishment.
ref: 2015, Ilona Rodan, Sarah Heath, editors, Feline Behavioral Health and Welfare, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 47:
glosses: Tending to repel; causing avoidance.
Derived terms: aversively
aversiveness
nonaversive
photoaversive
proaversive
unaversive
aversive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv
Forms: form: aversives
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A grammatical case indicating that something is avoided or feared; the evitative case.
examples: text: For general training purposes, opportunities to engage in reproductive acts are not a practical reinforcer, and using aversives that generate fear is fraught with side effects.
ref: 2015, Ilona Rodan, Sarah Heath, editors, Feline Behavioral Health and Welfare, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 53:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: An unpleasant stimulus intended to induce a change in behaviour.
Related terms: punishment
operant conditioning
180
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 180s
form: 180°
Etymology: From 180-degree turn.
Senses: examples: text: He did a 180 off the diving board.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An instance of spinning 180 degrees, so that one is facing in the opposite direction.
examples: text: The friendly welcome was a 180 from what she had been expecting.
text: As a result of his refusal, the employee was subsequently canned in 2015 on the basis of […] being boring […] In other words, it was a complete 180 from most employees who get fired for being too wild.
ref: 2022 November 25, B. Cost, “Man wins legal right to be 'boring' at work, gets $3K from company”, in New York Post, NYP Holdings, retrieved 27 Nov 2022:
glosses: The exact opposite.
examples: text: She used to like turnips, but she did a 180 and now hates them.
text: Got so sick of crying, so just lately / When I catch myself, I do a 180
ref: 2006, Amy Winehouse, Paul O'Duffy, “Wake Up Alone”, in Back to Black, performed by Amy Winehouse:
text: The lack of 180s partly results from the way that scientific disciplines ground themselves over time. In retrospect, one can’t be surprised that the first experiment to carefully examine the aether failed to find it. But it would be extremely surprising if, after decades of experimental verification, quarks were shown not to exist. In addition, as disciplines grow older and bigger, they end up naturally absorbing people with minority points of view. So instead of entire disciplines executing a U-turn, these minority beliefs shift and twist while becoming acceptable to the majority. […] Then there is the political influence on scientific 180s. In the U.S., politics and science collided right after 1803, the year of the Louisiana Purchase. […] The argument over the climate in the plains was an early example of an increasingly common phenomenon: the mismatch between the slow, unsteady movement of scientific understanding and the immediate, short-term imperatives of politics and economics, which can lead to what seem like vertiginous scientific reversals.
ref: 2025 August 19, Charles C. Mann, “What Happens When an Entire Generation of Scientists Changes Its Mind? Total reversals in scientific thinking are rare—but earth-shattering”, in Josh Fischman, editor, Scientific American:
synonyms: U-turn
about-face
about-turn
glosses: A complete change of direction or opinion.
Coordinate terms: english: 6 turns
translation: 6 turns
word: 2160
english: 5-1/2 turns
translation: 5-1/2 turns
word: 1980
english: 5 turns
translation: 5 turns
word: 1800
english: 4-1/2 turns
translation: 4-1/2 turns
word: 1620
english: 4 turns
translation: 4 turns
word: 1440
english: 3-1/2 turns
translation: 3-1/2 turns
word: 1260
english: 3 turns
translation: 3 turns
word: 1080
english: 2-1/2 turns
translation: 2-1/2 turns
word: 900
english: 2 turns
translation: 2 turns
word: 720
english: 1-1/2 turns
translation: 1-1/2 turns
word: 540
english: 1 turn
translation: 1 turn
word: 360
caïquejee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caïquejees
form: caiquejee
form: caiequejee
Etymology: Borrowed from French caïquejee, ultimately from Turkish kayıkçı (“boatman”).
Senses: examples: text: Having risen so early, by eleven o'clock I begin to feel tired, and generally enjoy a sound sleep on the cushions under the fig-tree; the caïquejees slumbering profoundly meanwhile in the 'Edith Belina', and my tiny guard Johannachi either discussing melons and figs, or playing in the garden with the old man's dogs...
ref: 2016, Laurence Kelly, Istanbul: A Traveller's Reader:
glosses: A person who rows a caique.
below average
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more below average
form: most below average
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: subnormal
text: Fewer than half of all drivers consider themselves to be below average.
text: Below-average pupils need special attention from their teachers.
antonyms: above average
glosses: Worse or lower than average.
meanie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmiːni/
Forms: form: meanies
form: meany
Etymology: From mean + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Teacher kept me in after school again. What a meanie!
text: That meanie wouldn't even lend me the bus fare.
text: The indigent health-care bill died in the waning moments of the session, killed by Republican Representative Bill Ceverha of Dallas, a notorious meanie.
ref: 2010, Molly Ivins, Nothin' But Good Times Ahead, page 50:
text: With a few gentle words, you calm Frank to a point of incoherent babbling and send him back to his office with a promise that you will do something to fight off those meanies and save the company from utter destruction.
ref: 2012, James Ferreira, Google Script: Enterprise Application Essentials, page 45:
glosses: A mean (unkind or miserly) person; a killjoy.
examples: text: If you like your wrestling rough, we've had besides such old and revered roughies as Lisowski, Schmidt, Herman, etc., some great new meanies.
ref: 2006, Chad Dell, The Revenge of Hatpin Mary:
text: More energy for Bliss to pursue the depraved denizens of Gotham, the meanies who lurked in the shadows, who left the messes and spills he and his partner Ward were constantly cleaning up.
ref: 2007, Bob Sloan, The Middle of Nowhere:
text: It starts out as a friendly yeast among the beneficial microbes in your intestines but morphs into a meanie if you indulge in what is called the Western diet—a diet high in sugar, red meat, white flour, and processed foods.
ref: 2014, Sondra Forsyth, Candida Cleanse:
synonyms: baddie
glosses: A villain.
Derived terms: word: blue meanie
taxonomic: Drymonema larsoni
word: pink meanie
caïque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caïques
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of caique.
top 40
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: top 40s
form: Top 40
form: top forty
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A list of the current 40 songs that are most popular with the general public (variously measured).
examples: text: I was listening to a top 40 radio station.
text: Nearly every history of Top 40 launches from an anecdote about how radio station manager Todd Storz came up with the idea sometime between World War II and the early 1950s, watching with friends in a bar in Omaha as customers repeatedly punched up the same few songs on the jukebox.
ref: 2014, Eric Weisbard, Top 40 Democracy […] , University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 4:
topics: broadcasting
entertainment
lifestyle
media
music
radio
coordinate_terms: CHR
glosses: A radio format for popular music, usually including the 40 most popular songs at a given time.
Related terms: top ten
hit list
hit parade
evolvable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more evolvable
form: most evolvable
Etymology: From evolve + -able.
Senses: examples: text: First, an evolvable system can respond quickly to change. In other words, a new system satisfying changed requirements is released onto the market quickly.
ref: 2010, Pierre Van de Laar, Teade Punter, Views on Evolvability of Embedded Systems, page 7:
glosses: Capable of evolving.
glosses: That can be drawn out.
Derived terms: nonevolvable
unevolvable
Related terms: evolvability
amethystine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amethystine
form: most amethystine
Etymology: From amethyst + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: His cubic forms phosphoric Fluor prints, / Or rays in spheres his amethystine tints.
ref: 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 80:
text: Certainly […] no spot more dazzlingly becircled with blue seas, amethystine peaks, and islets magically scattered on pellucid water, could have been chosen for the greatest naval battle of modern times.
ref: 1881, James Albert Harrison, Spain, page 499:
glosses: Like amethyst, especially in colour; violet-purple.
enfantement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enfantements
Etymology: Borrowed from French enfantement.
Senses: examples: text: "Which? She's expecting a second enfantement, you know, immediately...Oh, she's such a quick puss."
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 112
glosses: The act of giving birth.
flowerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flower + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without flowers.
Derived terms: flowerlessness
foreknow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɔːˈnəʊ/
ipa: /ˌfɔɹˈnoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: foreknows
form: foreknowing
form: foreknew
form: foreknown
Etymology: From Middle English forknowen (since Chaucer), a calque from praescio equivalent to fore- + know. Replaced Old English fōrwitan, fōrewitan (“to foreknow”).
Senses: examples: text: God hath not reiected his people vvhich he foreknevve.
ref: 1582, The Nevv Testament of Iesus Christ: […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Rheims: Iohn Fogny, →OCLC, Romanes 11:2, page 409:
text: 1652, Eugenius Philalethes, The Fame and Confeſſion of the Fraternity of R: C: Commonly, of the Roſie Croſs; with a Præface annexed thereto, and a ſhort Declaration of their Phyſicall Work (London, Printed by J. M. for Giles Calvert, at the black ſpread Eagle at the Weſt end of Pauls), pages 1–2 of “The Epiſtle to the Wiſe and Underſtanding Reader”
Wiſdom…is to a man an infinite Treaſure, for ſhe is the Breath of the Power of God, and a pure Influence that floweth from the Glory of the Almighty; ſhe is the Brightneſs of Eternal Light, and an undefiled Mirror of the Majeſty of God, and an Image of his Goodneſs; ſhe teacheth us Soberneſs and Prudence, Righteouſneſs and Strength; ſhe underſtands the Subtilty of words, and Solution of dark ſentences; ſhe foreknoweth Signs and Wonders, and what ſhall happen in time to come.
text: As it was, three of the oarsmen—who foreknew not the precise instant of the dart, and were therefore unprepared for its effects—these were flung out; […]
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Chase.—Third Day.”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 630:
glosses: To have knowledge of beforehand.
Derived terms: foreknowable
foreknower
Related terms: foreknowledge