cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
violinlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more violinlike
form: most violinlike
Etymology: From violin + -like.
Senses: examples: text: IN 1927 The New York Times reported from Berlin about an astounding recent invention: a box with a brass rod and ring that, when the inventor moved his hands around them, produced a violinlike sound of “extraordinary beauty and fullness of tone.”
ref: 2007 January 21, Daniel J. Wakin, “From the Archives, Just for Theremaniacs”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a violin or its sound.
yecch
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yech.
yecch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yecchs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yech.
anthropomorphist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthropomorphists
Etymology: From anthropomorphism + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: (Instead of do-re-mi-fa-sol, it’s “Foals in winter coats”; Mr. Mercer is a hard-core anthropomorphist.)
ref: 2007 January 22, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who anthropomorphizes.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Someone who attributes the human form to God.
anthropomorphists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthropomorphist
governmentally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From governmental + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: As a lawyer who has often been condemned for representing the despised, I understand how important it is to our legal system that lawyers remain entirely free to choose their clients without fear of governmentally imposed or suggested sanctions.
ref: 2007 January 22, “A Lawyer’s Free Speech (1 Letter)”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a governmental way; by or through a government.
Derived terms: quasigovernmentally
unperfumed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + perfumed.
Senses: glosses: Not perfumed.
Synonyms: unscented
tepals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tepal
murderabilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From murder; modelled on words like automobilia.
Senses: examples: text: But in a personal sense, having these letters treated as murderabilia is appalling to us.
ref: 2007 January 22, Serge F. Kovaleski, “Unabomber Wages Legal Battle to Halt the Sale of Papers”, in New York Times:
glosses: Items associated with a murderer, regarded as collectibles.
Hausdorffness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hausdorff + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or property of being Hausdorff.
midmovie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + movie.
Senses: examples: text: Its midmovie placement is highly inappropriate thematically...
ref: 2008, Keith Gilyard, Composition and Cornel West:
glosses: During a movie or a showing of a movie.
midmovie
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + movie.
Senses: examples: text: But his film received a premiere last Friday night at midnight at the Egyptian Theater, a coveted slot at Sundance, and quite a few members of the audience left midmovie.
ref: 2007 January 22, David Carr, “M dot Strange Finds a Way at Sundance”, in New York Times:
glosses: During a movie or the showing of a movie.
poeticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poeticisms
Etymology: From poetic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Poetic style; lyricism.
glosses: A poetic phrase, utterance, etc.
poeticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poeticism
unsatirical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + satirical.
Senses: examples: text: The Onion, which parodies the kind of earnest reporting that you find in real newspapers like The Washington Post itself (a recent example: “Rumsfeld Leaves Most Recent Job Off Resumé”) will keep control over its editorial content, including its (unsatirical) entertainment reviews.
ref: 2007 January 22, Matthew Healey, “Bulletin! Washington Post Decides to Go for the Satirical”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not satirical.
unsatirically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unsatirical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unsatirical way.
unsatirized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unsatirised
Etymology: From un- + satirized.
Senses: coordinate_terms: unparodied
glosses: That has not been satirized.
telphers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telpher
telphers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of telpher
antinationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antinationalist
form: most antinationalist
Etymology: From anti- + nationalist.
Senses: examples: text: But the antinationalist demonstrations that followed Mr. Dink’s killing also surfaced in places as diverse as Izmir, the Aegean coastal city that is Turkey’s third largest, and in Sanliurfa and Hatay, which are close to Turkey’s eastern border with Syria.
ref: 2007 January 23, Susanne Fowler, Sebnem Arsu, “Armenian Editor’s Death Leads to Conciliation”, in New York Times:
text: Luxemburg's position was antinationalist, not antinationality. She did not reject the value a national language or culture might hold for a particular people.
ref: 2007, Michael Forman, Nationalism and the International Labor Movement, page 84:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Of, pertaining to or supporting antinationalism.
antinationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antinationalists
Etymology: From anti- + nationalist.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A supporter of antinationalism.
antinationalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antinationalist
budmoth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: budmoths
Etymology: From bud + moth.
Senses: examples: text: This may be because with warmer temperatures, the budmoth larvae develop sooner, before their food source, the larch needles, becomes available.
ref: 2007 January 23, Henry Fountain, “A Bird’s-Eye View of Ski Trails’ Perils”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any of various moths, whose caterpillars are the budworms.
budmoths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of budmoth
fanfarelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fanfarelike
form: most fanfarelike
Etymology: From fanfare + -like.
Senses: examples: text: His reading of the C sharp minor Prelude from Book I, for example, was flexible and introspective, and the D major Prelude from Book II, with its fanfarelike figuration, took on a sense of high drama, with the slowly unfolding fugue offsetting it.
ref: 2007 January 23, Allan Kozinn, “Bach’s Strolls and Puzzles in All Keys, Major and Minor”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a fanfare.
koanlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more koanlike
form: most koanlike
Etymology: From koan + -like.
Senses: examples: text: There is a koanlike suggestiveness to it all.
ref: 2007 January 23, Dinitia Smith, “A Career in Letters, 50 Years and Counting”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a koan: cryptic, concise, thought-provoking, etc.
nonmetastatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + metastatic.
Senses: examples: text: All the women had nonmetastatic breast cancer and were scheduled for treatment but had not yet started.
ref: 2007 January 23, Nicholas Bakalar, “All Breast Cancer Patients Are Not Treated the Same”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not metastatic.
quiltmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quiltmakers
Etymology: From Middle English quilte maker, quyltemaker, quyltemakere; equivalent to quilt + maker.
Senses: examples: text: It was based on the recollections of Ozella McDaniel Williams, a teacher in Los Angeles who became a quiltmaker in Charleston, S.C. Ozella’s code,” the book says, was handed down from slave times from mother to daughter. C. Ms. Williams died in 1998.
ref: 2007 January 23, Noam Cohen, “In Douglass Tribute, Slave Folklore and Fact Collide”, in New York Times:
glosses: A maker of quilts.
Related terms: quiltmaking
quiltmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quiltmaker
geomagnetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From geomagnetic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: These geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) can become a hazard when they flow through conducting infrastructure, usually entering and exiting networks where equipment is grounded to Earth.
ref: 2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 30:
glosses: In a geomagnetic way; through geomagnetism.
magnetotails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnetotail
substorm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: substorms
Etymology: From sub- + storm.
Senses: examples: text: At times, however, energy builds up within the magnetic field until it suddenly breaks loose into what is called a substorm, releasing a burst of electrical current that turns the auroras into pulsing red, purple and white colors.
ref: 2007 January 23, Warren E. Leary, “Five New Satellites With a Mission of Finding a Source of Color in Space”, in New York Times:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A phenomenon in which a magnetotail becomes swollen and unstable.
Derived terms: substorm current wedge
substorms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of substorm
lovers' tiffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lovers' tiff
tinkerings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tinkering
tooken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Equivalent to took + -en.
Senses: examples: text: They tooken him to Soesbury, / To be at sizes tried: / Says he, 'within the stone jug. / I'll grin and there abide.
ref: 1848, Robert Armitage, “Trevor Hall, or, The Weaver of Windy-Gap”, in Ernest Singleton, volume III, London: Richard Bentley, page 70:
text: Well bo'; aw meean that time when yo' tooken the shillin'.
ref: 1863, Benjamin Brierley, “Trevor Hall, or, The Weaver of Windy-Gap”, in Chronicles of Waverlow, London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., page 115:
text: […] but they tooken on 'em soft, an' maden out as they wun right glad to see 'em agen, an axt 'em to come in an' a some mate an' drink.
ref: 1883, Charlotte Sophia Burne, Georgina Frederica Jackson, Shropshire Folk-lore: A Sheaf of Gleanings, volume 1, London: Trübner & Company, page 46:
glosses: plural form of took
tooken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: A conflation of took and taken; equivalent to took + -en.
Senses: examples: text: "She be tooken. They tooken her away."
ref: 2000, Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue, page 161:
text: “You’re not supposed to let your child get tooken somewhere without your knowledge,” Cheryl Wilson said.
ref: 2007 January 23, Michael Brick, “A Turbulent Life Is Described by the Family of a Killer”, in New York Times:
text: Both of them had snow on their boots, and a little on the hems of their coats, but they weren't all froze cold like yesterday. “We tooken the bus,” RJ told us.
ref: 2010, Kathi Purnell, Silent Heroes, page 188:
text: Sure you've seen me before, Doyle. Turkey Kimbroy and I, we tooken you over to Davis long time ago to he'p you get in the army.
ref: 2014, John D. MacDonald, Deadly Welcome:
glosses: past participle of take; nonstandard form of taken.
unexhausted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + exhausted.
Senses: synonyms: undepleted
antonyms: depleted
used up
coordinate_terms: inexhaustible
exhaustless
;
exhaustible
;
untapped
unexploited
unexploitable
glosses: Not exhausted.
raw_tags: of resources
pentachoron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentachorons
form: pentachora
Etymology: From penta- (“five”) + -choron (“4-dimensional solid”), from Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte, “five”) and χῶρος (khôros, “room”).
Senses: examples: text: A triangle becomes a tetrahedron (a type of pyramid), then a pentachoron (a hyperpyramid).
ref: 2008, George Musser, The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory, page 174:
text: Geometrically, K₃ relates to a triangle, K₄ a tetrahedron, K₅ a pentachoron, etc.
ref: 2008, Prabhakar Gupta et al., Design and Analysis of Algorithms, page 356:
text: The tetrahedron is a 3-simplex whose 4-simplex analog is the pentachoron, a four-dimensional body which can be orphographically ^([sic]) projected onto a quincrux (as well as a pentagram and other shapes).
ref: 2013, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 7:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A four-dimensional object analogous to a tetrahedron, constructed out of five tetrahedra.
Synonyms: 5-cell
Hypernyms: polychoron
Vlax Romani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Vlachs.
Senses: glosses: A dialect of Romani spoken in Bosnia, Herzegovina, Romania, Albania and Hungary.
Balkan Romani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of several dialects of Romani, spoken by groups within the Balkans.
Lomavren
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Lomavren.
Senses: glosses: The mixed language of the Armenian Lom people (the Bosha), spoken by a tiny number of persons mostly in Armenia but also Azerbaijan, Russia and Syria and consisting chiefly of Armenian grammar and pronunciation with an Indic-derived vocabulary.
Related terms: Bosha
rmi ⁠
spirits away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spirit away
spiriting away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spirit away
corposants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corposant
demi-vegetarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demi-vegetarian
absolute superlatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absolute superlative
Zugspitze
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Zug + Spitze.
Senses: glosses: The highest mountain of Germany, located in the Alps on the border between Bavaria and Tyrol, Austria.
typebar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typebars
Etymology: From type + bar.
Senses: examples: text: The speedy, well-engineered Underwood was eventually so successful that within a couple of decades, the vast majority of typewriters followed its model: They were single-shift, frontstroke, typebar typewriters with four-bank QWERTY keyboards, inked by a ribbon.
ref: 2018, Mark J. P. Wolf, The Routledge Companion to Media Technology and Obsolescence:
glosses: In some typewriters, an arm actuated by pressing the keys that carried the type to strike the ribbon to form a letter.
typebars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of typebar
tumplines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tumpline
colonoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colonoscope
chronoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chronoscope
bioscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioscope
treepie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treepies
Etymology: From tree + pie.
Senses: glosses: Any of four closely related genera (Dendrocitta, Crypsirina, Temnurus and as of recently also Platysmurus) of arboreal long-tailed passerine birds in the subfamily Crypsirininae of the family Corvidae.
Related terms: magpie
treepies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treepie
unmitigable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + mitigable.
Senses: examples: text: a patient suffering from unmitigable pain
text: the unmitigable environmental impact of the proposed project
text: [T]hou [Ariel] vvaſt a Spirit too delicate / To act her [the witch Sycorax's] earthy, and abhord commands, / Refuſing her grand heſts, ſhe did confine thee / By helpe of her more potent Miniſters, / And in her moſt vnmittigable rage, / Into a cloven Pyne, […]
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 4, column 1:
text: Oh for some few months of firmer health! This unmitigable disorder, which chains me to the chamber and the chair!
ref: 1780, Samuel Jackson Pratt, Emma Corbett: or, The Miseries of Civil War, Bath: Pratt and Clinch, Volume 3, Letter 111, pp. 40-41:
text: […] Sleep, impiteous sleep, / Unmitigable, uncorruptible gaoler, / Come, cloak my senses with thy leaden robe,
ref: 1911, Maurice Baring, “The Death of Alexander”, in Diminutive Dramas, London: Constable, page 36:
synonyms: irremediable
unappeasable
glosses: Not mitigable; not able to be mitigated or made less severe.
three-card monte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: three-card montes
Senses: examples: text: A starry 20th-anniversary revival of “Topdog/Underdog,” her Pulitzer Prize-winning fable about two brothers, three-card monte and one troubling inheritance, is in previews on Broadway.
ref: 2022 October 5, Michael Paulson, “Suzan-Lori Parks Is on Broadway, Off Broadway and Everywhere Else”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: find the lady
follow the bee
follow the lady
menage-a-card
three-card marney
three-card trick
three-way
three-card shuffle
triplets
glosses: A confidence game in which the victim, or mark, is tricked into betting a sum of money that they can find the money card, for example the queen of hearts, among three face-down playing cards.
Related terms: shell game
tosser
PDFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PDF
PDFs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of PDF
thrashing floor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrashing floors
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of threshing floor.
Hogrebe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The name originates from German Gaugraf (“magistrate”), Lower-Saxony. Until now, the oldest document with the name Gogreve comes out of the year 1172: Luithewicus and his brother, priest Thomas, in Medebach.
Senses: glosses: A German family surname, a modern form of the surname Gogreve.
provostship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: provostships
Etymology: From provost + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state, property, or office of being a provost.
provostships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of provostship
Baffin Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after William Baffin, English explorer.
Senses: glosses: A sea between Greenland and Nunavut.
wikipedia: William Baffin
Baffin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæfɪn/
Etymology: Originated as a nickname for a small or short man, derived from Welsh bach (“little”).
Senses: glosses: An English surname.
glosses: A region of Nunavut.
glosses: An island of Nunavut, Baffin Island.
glosses: Baffin Bay.
Derived terms: Baffin Bay
Baffin Island
Baffin Land
Baffin Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after English explorer William Baffin. Its native name is ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ (qikiqtaalok, literally “very big island”).
Senses: synonyms: James Island
Baffin Land
Helluland
glosses: A large island of Nunavut, Canada, north of the Canadian mainland.
love spoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love spoons
form: lovespoon
Senses: glosses: An ornately carved spoon, sometimes with double bowl, traditionally made from a single piece of wood by young men, especially in Wales, as a love token for a sweetheart.
love spoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of love spoon
lovespoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lovespoons
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of love spoon.
lovespoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lovespoon
Ellesmere Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere.
Senses: glosses: The northernmost island of Canada, in Nunavut.
wikipedia: Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere
Synonyms: word: Ellesmere Land
preneed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-need
Etymology: From pre- + need.
Senses: examples: text: Some agreements with third-party preneed sales companies require the funeral provider to enter into a noncompetition clause with the seller.
ref: 1988, Howard C Raether, The Funeral director's practice management handbook:
glosses: Arranged before a need arises.
Synonyms: advance
preneed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preneeds
Etymology: From pre- + need.
Senses: examples: text: But what I see as much more important for our funeral pre-needs is that we have made preparation for where we will spend eternity.
ref: 2016, Molly Stringer, That's the Way It Is: Just Checking In:
glosses: A service purchased and arranged before the need for it arises.
trochilidine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trochilidine
form: most trochilidine
Etymology: From translingual Trochilidae (family name).
Senses: examples: text: Trochilidine literature has never entirely recovered from its effect.
ref: 1892, Robert Ridgway, THE HUMMING BIRDS., page 261:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Of, or pertaining to hummingbirds.
Synonyms: trochiline
triglyceridemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triglyceridemias
Etymology: From triglyceride + -emia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of triglycerides in the blood
hypervolemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːmɪk
Forms: form: more hypervolemic
form: most hypervolemic
form: hypervolaemic
form: hypervolæmic
Etymology: From hyper- + volemic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
antonyms: hypovolemic
glosses: Of or pertaining to hypervolemia.
hypervolemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypervolaemia
form: hypervolæmia
Etymology: From hyper- + volemia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An abnormal increase in the volume of blood circulating through the body
Derived terms: hypervolemic
hypocholesteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌhaɪpəʊˌkɔlɪˈstɛɹɪk/
Forms: form: more hypocholesteric
form: most hypocholesteric
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to hypocholesterolemia
waterscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterscapes
Etymology: From water + -scape. Compare Middle English watershipe (“a gathering of waters”), Old English wætersċipe (“a body of water”), Old Saxon watriscapum (“watercourse, watersource”), Middle Dutch waterschap (“watercourse, waterway”) (whence Dutch waterschap).
Senses: examples: text: As early as 1898, Monet had thought of combining a series of such waterscapes into one wall-filling frieze […]
ref: 2002, Lorenz Eitner, 19th century European painting: David to Cézanne:
glosses: An aquatic landscape; a view or site prominently involving water.
waterscape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: waterscapes
form: waterscaping
form: waterscaped
form: waterscaped
Etymology: From water + -scape. Compare Middle English watershipe (“a gathering of waters”), Old English wætersċipe (“a body of water”), Old Saxon watriscapum (“watercourse, watersource”), Middle Dutch waterschap (“watercourse, waterway”) (whence Dutch waterschap).
Senses: glosses: To create an aquatic landscape.
phosphatemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phosphate + -emia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The presence of phosphate in the blood.
Derived terms: hyperphosphatemia
hypophosphatemia
hypolipidemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypolipidemias
Etymology: From hypo- + lipidemia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A lower than normal concentration of lipids in the blood
Hypernyms: dyslipidemia
Related terms: hypolipidemic
lipidemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipidemias
Etymology: From lipid + -emia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The presence of lipids in the blood
Derived terms: hyperlipidemia
hypolipidemia
normolipidemia
US-ian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more US-ian
form: most US-ian
Senses: examples: text: Let us be urged to make our homes in Latin America, establishing US-ian colonies even as our present enemies entrenched themselves there.
ref: 1944, Frieda Meredith Dietz, editor, The Southern Literary Messenger, volume 6, page 157:
glosses: Alternative form of USian.
Derived terms: U.S.iana
US-ian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: US-ians
Senses: examples: text: The belief that there is a culture to which a majority of (European-American) USians belong, called "white culture," is a local cultural construction, one powereful enough to influence science and society
ref: 1998, Stephen Garrard Post, Peter J. Whitehouse, Genetic testing for Alzheimer disease: ethical and clinical issues, 2nd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 266:
glosses: Alternative form of USian.
emberizine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɛmˈbɛɹɪzaɪn/
Senses: glosses: Of the Emberizidae, a large family of seed-eating passerine birds.
inharmonicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inharmonicities
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being not or less than totally harmonious
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The degree to which the frequencies of overtones (known as partial tones or harmonics) depart from whole multiples of the fundamental frequency.
Related terms: anharmonicity
disharmony
economic nationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: economic nationalisms
Senses: examples: text: The risk of that V-shaped recession being drawn out into a U, or even the dreaded L – a blow from which we barely recover, bumping along the bottom for years – grows if world leaders retreat into economic nationalism.
ref: 2020 April 9, Gaby Hinsliff, “We used to moan about normal life, now our fear is we'll never get it back”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Economic policies that favour the home nation, sometimes at the expense of other nations.
economic nationalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of economic nationalism
creatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From create + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be created.
Synonyms: incarnatable
instantiable
makable
makeable
Derived terms: uncreatable
Araucanization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish araucanización, from Araucanía. By surface analysis, Araucania + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: The Araucanization of the pampa continued into the first half of the nineteenth century as Araucanian speakers continued to migrate across the Andes.
ref: 2008, David J. Weber, Bárbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 65:
synonyms: Mapuchization
glosses: The process of expansion of the Mapudungun language and other elements of the Mapuche culture from its homeland Araucania into the plains of Patagonia, so as to assimilate such other native Amerindian peoples as the Puelches and Tehuelches.
Related terms: Araucanian
beggarlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beggarlike
form: most beggarlike
Etymology: From beggar + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a beggar: poor, wheedling, insolent, etc.
Synonyms: beggarly
visitorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: visitorships
Etymology: From visitor + -ship.
Senses: examples: The visitorship in this nunnery is traditionally held by a Jesuit.
glosses: The quality, position of visitor, notably where that is a title:
in an ecclesiastical context
examples: Visitorships in reputed universities can significantly advance careers.
glosses: The quality, position of visitor, notably where that is a title:
in an academical institution
examples: text: The visitorship should not be a major measure of success for a cultural activity which requires a well-prepared audience.
glosses: attendance, number of visitors attending an event, etc.
Lilah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Short form of Delilah; also a variant of Leila.
Senses: examples: text: Who was Lilah? I am sure / She was young and sweet and pure; / - - - So to Lilah's name above / I will add two names I love
ref: 1874, James Thomson, “Lilah Alice Hypatia”, in The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems, Reeves and Turner, published 1895, page 282:
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
Lilia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lilia, plural of lilium (“lily”), or a Latinization of the English Lily.
Senses: examples: text: Lilia, wild with sport, / Half child, half woman as she was, had wound / A scarf of orange round the stony helm,
ref: 1853 Alfred Tennyson, The Princess, The Prologue
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
Lila
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Leila or Lilah, depending on pronunciation; also associated with Spanish lila (“lilac”).
Senses: examples: text: Your name is flowery too. I used to say Mamita would have called you Lady Viola; but violet colors and lilac colors are cousins, and they both suit your complexion and your name, Mamita Lila.
ref: 1867, Lydia Maria Francis Child, A Romance of the Republic, Ticknor and Fields, published 1867, page 149:
text: “I been thinking about ‘Lila.’ I had a sister Lila. Give her a pretty name, maybe she could turn out pretty.”
ref: 2014, Marilynne Robinson, Lila, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: A female given name from Arabic.
Lila
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Leela
Etymology: From Sanskrit लीला (līlā, “play, charm”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Leela
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Dorothy's daughters were of exceptional beauty and the sisters could complain only that the Hindi names Dorothy had chosen - Mira, Leela, Lena - were meant to pass as Western ones.
ref: 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Penguin Books, published 1977, →ISBN, page 366:
glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India, a spelling variant of Lila.
Ermengarde
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Old English name reinforced by its Norman cognate, from Proto-Germanic *ermunaz (“all,whole”) + *gardaz (“enclosure”), "strong protection". Cognate with the German saint's name Irmgard.
Senses: examples: text: "What is your name?" she said. [...] "My name's Ermengarde St. John," she answered. / "Mine is Sara Crewe," said Sara. "Yours is very pretty. It sounds like a story-book."
ref: 1905, Frances Hodgson Burnett, “Ermengarde”, in A Little Princess: […], New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 26:
glosses: A female given name from Old English.
base off of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bases off of
form: basing off of
form: based off of
form: based off of
Senses: examples: text: A lot of artists put skits in their records, but they based it off of De La Soul. We didn't base ours off of De La Soul, we based ours off of ours, because we were the first group to actually split up a rap album and not go cut for cut.
ref: 2006, Chuck D, Yusuf Jah, Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary, volume 1:
text: They wanted something like a '70s thriller, so I based it off of The Man with the Golden Gun poster.
ref: 2015, Eric Nolen-Weathington, Modern Masters Volume 30: Paolo Rivera, page 40:
glosses: To base on.
Almira
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Coined name, possibly inspired by Elmira, of a queen of Castile in C. F. Handel's opera Almira (1705) to an Italian [Term?] libretto.
Senses: examples: text: Almira was the only daughter of a worthy merchant in the city of London.
ref: 1762, Almira: Being the History of a Young Lady of Good Birth and Fortune, but more Distinguish'd Merit, W. Owen, page 1:
glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage, of mainly 18th and 19th century usage.
gnosiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gnoseological.
Derived terms: gnosiologically
gnoseology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gnosiology
Etymology: From gnosis + -o- + -logy. Cognates include German Gnoseologie, Bulgarian гносеология (gnoseologija), Czech gnozeologie, Finnish gnoseologia, French gnoséologie, Greek γνωσιολογία (gnosiología), Polish gnoseologia, Romanian gnoseologie, Russian гносеология (gnoseologija), Italian gnoseologia, Slovak gnozeológia, Spanish gnoseología, and Ukrainian гносеологія (hnoseolohija).
Senses: examples: text: GNOSEOLOGY, GNOSOLOGY, GNOSTOLOGY, in Metaphysics, doctrine or system of cognition; theory of knowledge; used by Stirling to render Wissenschaftslehre (Fichte's).
ref: (mention only) 1877, Charles Porterfield Krauth, A Vocabulary of the Philosophical Scienceshttps://books.google.com/books?id=4leCKf5bCaQC&pg=PA682&dq=%22gnoseology%22
text: Like Wolff, he makes the theory of knowledge precede both speculative and practical philosophy, the former of which embraces metaphysics, although, just as Wolff did, he often hesitates whether this theory ought not to be combined with psychology. He [Baumgarten] applies to it the name "gnoseology."
ref: (mention only) 1892, Johann Eduard Erdmann, A History of Philosophyhttps://books.google.com/books?id=6uktAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA239&dq=%22gnoseology%22
synonyms: epistemology
glosses: The philosophical study of knowledge.
Related terms: gnoseological
catastrophizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of catastrophize
crenarchaeote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɹɪˈnɑː(ɹ)ki.əʊt/
Forms: form: crenarchaeotes
Senses: glosses: Any of very many marine archaea, of the phylum Crenarchaeota, many of which are extremophiles
metatranscriptomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to metatranscriptomics
metatranscriptomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + transcriptomics.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A branch of transcriptomics that studies, and correlates, the transcriptomes of a group of interacting organisms or species
Related terms: metatranscriptome
metatranscriptomic
neuronally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From neuronal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With regard to a neuron.
Derived terms: extraneuronally
interneuronally
panneuronally
transneuronally
Related terms: neuronal
optomechanical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From opto- + mechanical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to optomechanics
Derived terms: optomechanically
optomechanics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opto-mechanics
Etymology: * opto- + mechanics
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The design and manufacture of precision mechanical components of optical devices
Related terms: optomechatronics
pentaphosphaferrocene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentaphosphaferrocenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a series of compounds, analogous to ferrocenes, in which a ring of five phosphorus atoms is bound to an iron atom
phenyboronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of phenylboronic.
photoautotrophs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoautotroph
photoluminesce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: photoluminesces
form: photoluminescing
form: photoluminesced
form: photoluminesced
Etymology: From photo- + luminesce.
Senses: glosses: To exhibit photoluminescence
rhodopsins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhodopsin
flacon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈflækɒn/
/ˈflɑːkɒn/
Forms: form: flacons
Etymology: Borrowed from French flacon. Doublet of fiasco, flagon, and flask.
Senses: examples: October 24, 1872, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, letter to G. W. Greene
two glass flacons for the ink
glosses: A small stoppered glass bottle, often used for keeping perfume.
flacons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flacon
balance beams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balance beam
there have been
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: there've been
Senses: glosses: plural present perfect of there be
soccer balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soccer ball
Udmurts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Udmurt
creme brulees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creme brulee
buccinator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌk.sɪn.eɪ.tə/
ipa: /ˈbʌk.səˌneɪ.tɚ/
Forms: form: buccinators
form: buccinatores
form: bucinator
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin buccinātor (“trumpeter”), from buccinō (“blow the trumpet”) + -tor (“-ator, -er”).
Senses: examples: text: Until now there has been no definitive anatomical study describing the area where the parotid duct enters the buccinator muscle.
text: What a language it is, with all the organs of speech in loud concert - tongue, teeth, and tonsils, lips and larynx, buccinator and schnozzola!
ref: 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 109:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A thin broad muscle forming the wall of the cheek.
supra-œsophagal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supra-œsophagal
form: most supra-œsophagal
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of supraesophageal.
upbraidings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upbraiding
zoography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: zoographies
form: zoögraphy
Etymology: From zoo- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: A description of animals, their forms, and habits; descriptive zoology.
zoonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoonites
form: zoönite
Etymology: From zoon + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: An organite is always dependent, its life is always subordinate to that of the individual of which it forms a part; a zoonite is always independent, it has a life peculiar to itself.
ref: 1843, The Medical Times, volume 7, page 183:
text: When there is budding the somite which proliferates is the pre-anal in Myrianida and certain species of Autolytus; the anal segment is, from the first, too differentiated to take part in the formation of new zoonites.
ref: 1891, Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, page 195:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the segments of the body of an articulated animal, sometimes regarded as a distinct organism.
Synonyms: zoonule
zoönule
zoonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoonite
zoozoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoozoo
deraign
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deraigns
form: deraigning
form: deraigned
form: deraigned
form: darraign
form: darraigne
form: darrain
form: darraine
form: darrayn
form: darrayne
form: derain
form: dereine
form: dereyne
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English dereynen, from Old French deraisnier (“to explain, defend, to maintain in legal action by proof and reasonings”), from Late Latin derationare (“to discourse, contend in law”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To prove or refute, especially through combat.
examples: text: Therewith they gan to hurtlen greedily, / Redoubted battaile ready to darrayne, / And clash their shields, and shake their swords on hy [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To engage in battle or combat.
examples: text: Now everything I had or sought, I've lost; / Upon a glimpse, I am disparadised. / So: go defiant to the nether world, / And darreign^([sic]) Lucifer's dread minions to / Worse torment than thou wouldst do thyself.
ref: 2001, Scott Lynch-Giddings, A Fancyfull Historie of that Most Notable & Fameous Outlaw Robyn Hood, San Jose, Calif.: Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 108:
glosses: To determine or decide by combat; to fight out.
glosses: To ready or prepare for combat.
billycans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of billycan
fraidiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of fraidy: most fraidy
fraidier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of fraidy: more fraidy
crow scarers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crow scarer
plugfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plugfest
military school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: military schools
Senses: glosses: A secondary school (or middle school) that prepares its students for joining the military.
Coordinate terms: military academy
military schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of military school
protistan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: protistian
Etymology: From protist + -an.
Senses: synonyms: protistic
glosses: Of or pertaining to the protists.
protistan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protistans
form: protistian
Etymology: From protist + -an.
Senses: glosses: A protist.
American wigeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American wigeons
form: American widgeon
Senses: glosses: A species of duck, Anas americana.
Synonyms: zuisin
baldpate
baldcrown
psRNAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psRNA
military academy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: military academies
Senses: synonyms: service academy
glosses: A postsecondary school that prepares its students for military service as an officer.
glosses: A secondary school or postsecondary school that incorporates military-like discipline into its educational program, typically leading many of its students to join the military.
Coordinate terms: military school
psRNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psRNAs
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of polysome-associated RNA.
military academies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of military academy
American widgeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of American widgeon
zygenids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zygenid
sRNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sRNAs
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: short RNA; soluble RNA
pufferbellies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pufferbelly
pufferbelly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pufferbellies
Etymology: From puffer + belly.
Senses: glosses: A steam locomotive.
darrain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: darrains
form: darraining
form: darrained
form: darrained
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deraign
world music
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: world musics
Etymology: Attributed to ethnomusicologist Robert E. Brown (1960s), later primarily used as a marketing term.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Traditional music, as opposed to popular music or classical music.
examples: text: While it can be considered a metagenre, world music is really more of a marketing category.
ref: 2016, Roy Shuker, Understanding Popular Music Culture, page 123:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Music that combines elements from traditional styles from the non-Western world along with modern, popular elements, in order to create something marketed towards Western audiences.
Related terms: world literature
derain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: derains
form: deraining
form: derained
form: derained
Etymology: See deraign.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Obsolete spelling of deraign.
derain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: derains
form: deraining
form: derained
form: derained
Etymology: From de- + rain. Compare deraining (noun).
Senses: examples: text: Hence, in our proposed pipeline, we derain first, then followed by dehazing and at last finished with deraining.
ref: 2017, Yang, Wenhan, Robby T. Tan, Jiashi Feng, Jiaying Liu, Zongming Guo, and Shuicheng Yan, “Deep joint rain detection and removal from a single image.”, in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition:
text: It is demonstrated that the proposed method yields in relatively higher performance in comparison to other state-of-the-art deraining models in terms of derained image quality and computing efficiency.
ref: 2018, Chen Li, Yecai Guo, Qi Liu, Xiaodong Liu, “DR-Net: A Novel Generative Adversarial Network for Single Image Deraining”, in Security and Communication Networks, →DOI:
qualifier: machine learning
glosses: To remove rain from an image.
Related terms: dehaze
desnow
darraign
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: darraigns
form: darraigning
form: darraigned
form: darraigned
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of deraign.
darraigns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of darraign
darraigning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of darraign
glosses: present participle and gerund of darraigne
darraigned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of darraign
glosses: simple past and past participle of darraigne
Murasugi sum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Murasugi sums
Etymology: After Kunio Murasugi.
Senses: glosses: The union of a finite sequence of surfaces taken over a disk common to every adjacent pair of the sequence, such that the boundary of the disk comprises some even number of closed arcs, disjoint except at their endpoints, which are alternatingly subarcs of the two surfaces' boundaries.
glosses: The union of links formed by taking such a sum of their Seifert surfaces and taking the boundary of the result.
Hyponyms: plumbing
Murasugi sums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Murasugi sum
darrains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of darrain
darraining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of darrain
darrained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of darrain
subarc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subarcs
Etymology: From sub- + arc.
Senses: glosses: An arc which is a subset of another arc.
subarcs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subarc
deraigns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deraign
deraigning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deraign
deraigned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deraign
derains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of derain
deraining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of derain