cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
monodromic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: of or relating to monodromy
Derived terms: isomonodromic
monogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: of or relating to monogenesis or to monogenism
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: regulated by a single gene
antonyms: amphogenic
glosses: producing offspring of only one sex, exhibiting monogeny
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: having a single derivative at a point
raw_tags: of a function
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: generated by a set containing only a single element
raw_tags: of a semigroup
Derived terms: monogenicity
monogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monogenics
Etymology: From mono- + -genic.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A derivative of a monogenic function
Derived terms: monogenically
monomorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monomorphisms
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: an injective homomorphism
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: the absence of sexual dimorphism
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
hyponyms: equalizer
bimorphism
isomorphism
split monomorphism
global element
glosses: A morphism n such that for any other morphisms f and g, if n∘f=n∘g then f = g.
Synonyms: sense: in category theory
word: mono
Related terms: sense: in category theory
word: epimorphism
sense: in category theory
word: isomorphism
sense: in category theory
word: monic
moosebird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moosebirds
Etymology: From moose + bird. They have been observed landing on moose to eat engorged ticks.
Senses: glosses: The gray jay, Perisoreus canadensis.
gray jay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gray jays
form: grey jay
Senses: glosses: A mostly gray bird, Perisoreus canadensis, that inhabits coniferous forests of North America.
glosses: Any bird of the genus Perisoreus.
Synonyms: sense: Perisoreus canadensis
word: camp robber
sense: Perisoreus canadensis
word: Canada jay
sense: Perisoreus canadensis
word: moosebird
sense: Perisoreus canadensis
word: whiskey-jack
sense: Perisoreus canadensis
word: whiskeyjack
sense: Perisoreus canadensis
word: whiskey jack
sense: Perisoreus canadensis
word: whisky-jack
sense: Perisoreus canadensis
word: whiskyjack
sense: Perisoreus canadensis
word: whisky jack
Coordinate terms: sense: Perisoreus canadensis
word: Siberian jay
sense: Perisoreus canadensis
word: Sichuan jay
Morohashi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 諸橋, surname of the compiler of the dictionary.
Senses: glosses: A large kanji dictionary, the Dai Kanwa Jiten (大漢和辞典), compiled by Tetsuji Morohashi.
morphemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔː(ɹ)fɛmɪk/
rhymes: -iːmɪk
Etymology: From morpheme + -ic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to morphemics or to a morpheme.
Derived terms: bimorphemic
dimorphemic
heteromorphemic
intramorphemic
isomorphemic
monomorphemic
morphemically
multimorphemic
polymorphemic
submorphemic
supramorphemic
tautomorphemic
trimorphemic
morphemics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From morpheme + -ics.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The study of morphemes, or of the morphemic structure of a language.
guyfriend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guyfriends
Senses: glosses: Rare form of guy friend.
volcanos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volcano
Synonyms: volcanoes
volcanoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He caused people to be brought to
Teegeeack (Earth) and put an H Bomb
on the principal volcanoes (Incident 2)
and then the Pacific area ones
were taken in boxes to Hawaii
and the Atlantic Area ones to
Las Palmas and there "packaged."
His name was Xenu.
ref: 1960s, L. Ron Hubbard, OT III: Wall of Fire, archived from the original on 12 Jan 2013:
glosses: plural of volcano
Synonyms: volcanos
vulcanise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vulcanises
form: vulcanising
form: vulcanised
form: vulcanised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of vulcanize.
vulcanization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vulcanizations
form: vulcanisation
Etymology: From vulcanize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: A process by which rubber is hardened using heat and sulphur.
Related terms: vulcanize
vulcanise
vulcanisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vulcanisations
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of vulcanization.
vulcanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vulcanises
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vulcanize
vulcanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vulcanising
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vulcanize
vulcanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vulcanising
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of vulcanizing shop.
vulcanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vulcanised
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vulcanize
vulcanises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vulcanizes
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vulcanise
vulcanising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vulcanizing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vulcanise
vulcanised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vulcanized
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vulcanise
morphinomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From morphine + -o- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: morphine addiction
Synonyms: morphinism
Mosaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: mosaic
Etymology: From Middle French mosaïque, moysaique, and its source, post-classical Latin Mosaicus (5th century), from Latin Moses.
Senses: examples: text: Mosaic law
text: The Mosaic account of the creation, whether taken as divine authority, or merely historical, is full to this point, the unity or equality of man.
ref: 1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution, London: […] J. S. Jordan, […], →OCLC:
text: The Mosaic Code, embodied in the Pentateuch, furnished to the children of Israel the necessary platform of justice; ancient tradition and Rabbinic interpretation contained in the Talmud, supplied needed rules of practical application.
ref: 1908, Walter M. Chandler, The Trial of Jesus from a Lawyer's Standpoint, volume I:
glosses: Pertaining to Moses, or the writings and traditions attributed to him.
Derived terms: Mosaic covenant
most of all
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: to a greater extent than anything else
motley crew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɒtli ˈkɹuː/
ipa: /ˌmɑtli ˈkɹu/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: motley crews
Etymology: From motley + crew. Originally used to refer to the crews of 17th- and 18th-century ships, which contained men of many different nationalities.
Senses: examples: text: Away they marched from the rocky region and miserable village where they were posted, a motley crew of Christians and Infidels, Catholics, Greeks, and adorers of the Prophet, all mingled together, to go and attack the holy city, and compel the governor to come to their terms, and supply them with provisions.
ref: 1830, John Carne, “Arab Chief—Syrian Physician—Adventures of a London Merchant”, in Recollections of Travels in the East; […], London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 100:
text: The honest Indian scorns all these schemes, and is never found among the motley crew of Indian doctors. It is made up not of genuine Indians, but of negroes, mulattoes, and, meanest of all, some white men, who have stolen the Indian livery for their own unhallowed purposes.
ref: 1858, Dan King, “Indian Medicine”, in Quackery Unmasked: Or A Consideration of the Most Prominent Empirical Schemes of the Present Time, […], Boston, Mass.: […] David Clapp, →OCLC, page 223:
text: Along the edge of this position lay the Arab host, a motley crew of shock-headed desert clansmen, fierce predatory slave-dealers of the interior, and wild dervishes from the Upper Nile, all blent together by their common fearlessness and fanaticism.
ref: 1893 June, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Green Flag”, in The Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport (Bell’s Indian and Colonial Library), London; Bombay, Maharashtra: George Bell & Sons, published 1900, →OCLC, page 8:
text: Spotless amid a motley crew / She passed the fiery ordeal through / Unhurt, begirt as with a fence / Of innocence.
ref: 1894, Arthur Clark Kennedy, “She Walked through Fire”, in Erotica, London: Gay and Bird, →OCLC, page 45:
text: No one responded to the offer. A little dirty-faced urchin, who looked unhappy and out of place with that motley crew, looked longingly at Ralph. […] "Hold on, mister, back up—I want to tell you something!"
ref: 1906, Allen Chapman, “Ralph of the Roundhouse: Or Bound to Become a Railroad Man. Chapter XIX: Ike Slump’s Friends”, in Ralph on the Railroad: […], New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, published [1910], →OCLC, page 163:
text: Within days, [Gary] Schroen and a motley crew of paramilitary officers became the first Americans on the ground in Afghanistan, armed with little more than satellite phones – but also millions of dollars in cash to curry favour with potential allies.
ref: 2022 August 5, Bernd Debusmann Jr., “Obituary: Gary Schroen, the CIA spy sent to get Osama Bin Laden”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2023:
glosses: A group of people of mixed background, especially one with a common goal.
wikipedia: Dictionary.com
Related terms: melting pot
Mötley Crüe
mountainslope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountainslopes
Etymology: From mountain + slope.
Senses: glosses: the sloping side of a mountain
mountainslope
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mountain + slope.
Senses: glosses: on the sloping side of a mountain
mountaintop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaʊnt(ɪ)nˌtɑp/
Forms: form: mountaintops
Etymology: From mountain + top.
Senses: examples: text: So we follow dear Jenny along the mountaintop trail, until it descends to the forest below, where Maple and Oak, and violet Trefoil, and velvety Viburnum grow; where polynose clusters hang from Striped Maple, and Cinnamon Ferns that show.
ref: 2007, Hal Laza, The Green Embrace, page 77:
text: While I've gazed at the sky from my sleeping bag on isolated mountaintops in Montana and southern beaches of Mexico and seen a jazillion stars basking in the peace of the evening, only in Rishikesh do the jazillion merge upon another bajillion jazillion and seem to lay overhead thick as glittering ceiling tiles.
ref: 2016, Claire Krulikowski, Moonlight on the Ganga:
glosses: The summit of a mountain.
Derived terms: mountaintopism
mountaintop removal
snow on the mountaintop
there may be snow on the mountaintop but there's fire in the valley
mountaintop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaʊnt(ɪ)nˌtɑp/
Etymology: From mountain + top.
Senses: glosses: Situated or occurring on the summit of a mountain.
Mpoto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a Bantu language of Tanzania.
mulloway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mulloways
Etymology: Probably from Ngarrindjeri malowe.
Senses: examples: text: I clawed my way up a long, evil hissing slope and saw the light on the lonely beach and my father with a mulloway slung across his back like an aura […].
ref: 1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador, published 2012, page 79:
text: To us, a rainy day may mean that we have to rug up and stay inside out of the elements, but the coming of a storm or the rising swell will find a mulloway that lives and feeds along the beaches, waiting around a river entrance for the mullet...
ref: 2005, Gary Brown, Beach and Rock Fishing:
synonyms: Japanese meagre
southern meagre
glosses: Any of the species Argyrosomus japonicus of large fish, found along the eastern coast of Africa and the coasts of Australia, prized for sport.
multicausal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + causal.
Senses: glosses: having multiple causes
multiprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + protein.
Senses: glosses: consisting of several proteins
Munyarwand
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language of Rwanda.
muscle in on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: muscles in on
form: muscling in on
form: muscled in on
form: muscled in on
Senses: examples: text: The Russian Mafia did not take too kindly to a Westerner muscling in on their market, and so decided to send a little message.
ref: 2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, page 29:
glosses: To interfere with, or intrude on something forcibly.
Synonyms: crowd in on
Related terms: muscle
muscle in
muscle in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: muscles in
form: muscling in
form: muscled in
form: muscled in
Senses: examples: text: The Government's £500 million Restoring Your Railway initiative - awarding small grants to put back lines that should never have been closed - has turned into a muddle because backers of multi-million pound projects have also muscled in.
ref: 2021 May 5, Howard Johnston, “Restoring your railway... or just window dressing?”, in RAIL, number 930, page 32:
glosses: To interfere, or intrude forcibly.
Related terms: muscle in on
musculoskeletal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From musculo- + skeletal.
Senses: examples: text: Have the patient collect an hour-by-hour log of work activities, with an attempt to define actions that may cause or exacerbate musculoskeletal problems.
ref: 2006, Stephen A. Paget, Hospital for Special Surgery Manual of Rheumatology and Outpatient, page 2:
text: The superficial fascia surrounds the body and includes subcutaneous fat; the deep fascia surrounds the musculoskeletal system; the meningeal fascia surrounds the nervous system; the visceral fascia surrounds body cavities and organs.
ref: 2018 November 8, Dr. Melina Jampolis, “The real science behind fascia ailments”, in CNN:
text: The most common cause of absence in the rail and bus sectors is musculoskeletal - conditions that affect joints, bones and muscles. Between January 1 2019 and June 30 2022, 6.5 million working days were lost due to musculoskeletal illness at a cost of £946m.
ref: 2023 January 25, Alun Baker, “A wellbeing crisis”, in RAIL, number 975, page 65:
glosses: Of, or relating to both muscles and the skeleton.
Derived terms: extramusculoskeletal
musculoskeletally
nonmusculoskeletal
Related terms: orthopedic
mushroom body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mushroom bodies
Etymology: From mushroom + body, after German pilzhutförmiger Körper.
Senses: examples: text: In fruit flies the cyclic AMP system seems to be especially active in brain regions called mushroom bodies, toadstool-shaped extrusions of neurons in the fruit fly brain.
ref: 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 226:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Either of a pair of structures in the brains of insects and some other arthropods thought to be involved in learning and memory.
Synonyms: corpora pedunculata
mycologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mycology + -ic.
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to mycology or to the fungal kingdom; mycological
myelinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more myelinate
form: most myelinate
Etymology: From myelin + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Related to, or made of myelin.
myelinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: myelinates
form: myelinating
form: myelinated
form: myelinated
Etymology: From myelin + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To coat with myelin.
Derived terms: hypermyelinate
remyelinate
myelin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪəlɪn/
Forms: form: myelins
Etymology: From myelo- + -in.
From Ancient Greek μυελός (muelós, “marrow”).
Senses: examples: text: As the result of prolonged action of water upon myelin, bird's-nests-cells are also said to be produced, and we are certain we have seen, as the result of such prolonged action of water, the appearances thus compared.
ref: 1868 January, Edmund Montgomery, “On the Formation of so-called Cells in Animal Bodies”, in The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, page 203:
text: This gene controls the production of an insulating sleeve that wraps around neurons. Known as myelin, it is crucial for long-range communication in the brain.
ref: 2018 December 13, Carl Zimmer, “Narrower Skulls, Oblong Brains: How Neanderthal DNA Still Shapes Us”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A white, fatty material, composed of lipids and lipoproteins, that surrounds the axons of nerves.
Derived terms: demyelinate
demyelination
dysmyelinogenic
myelinate
myelinated
myelination
myelin basic protein
myelinic
myelinisation
myelinization
myelinogenesis
myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein
myelinolysis
myelinopathy
myelinophage
myelinophagia
myelinotrophic
myelin protein zero
myelin sheath
myeloidin
nonmyelin
Related terms: myelopathy
myelitis
myoblastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myoblast + -ic.
Senses: glosses: of or relating to the myoblast
Derived terms: cardiomyoblastic
myoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myoblasts
Etymology: From myo- + -blast.
Senses: examples: text: It is the deeper parts of such cells which give rise to delicate muscular fibres or networks of fibres, while the superficially placed body of the cell (myoblast), the part which produces the above, performs other functions, and usually bears a cilium.
ref: 1892, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, edited by F. G. Heathcote, Elementary Text-book of Zoology:
glosses: An undifferentiated stem cell that develops into muscle tissue.
Derived terms: cardiomyoblast
myoblastic
myoblastocyte
premyoblast
mythomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪ.θəʊˈmeɪ.ni.ə/
Forms: form: mythomanias
Etymology: From mytho- + -mania.
Compare French mythomanie f.
Senses: glosses: A compulsion to tell lies and exaggerate the truth.
Derived terms: mythomaniac
mythomaniacal
sunperch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunperches
form: sunperch
Etymology: From sun + perch.
Senses: examples: text: All Bill caught were two smallish sunperch, barely worth the effort to clean and cook.
glosses: Regional name for any of various North American sunfish caught as panfish.
Synonyms: bluegill
bream
pumpkinseed
mythomaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪθəˈmeɪniæk/
ipa: /ˌmɪθəʊˈmeɪniæk/
rhymes: -eɪniæk
Forms: form: mythomaniacs
Etymology: Borrowed from French mythomane. By surface analysis, mytho- + -maniac. Attested in English since 1950s.
Senses: synonyms: mythomane
glosses: Someone who suffers from mythomania.
en flute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: en flûte
Etymology: From French en flûte; the empty ports on the hull of the ship look like the holes in a flute.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: With some or all of her cannons removed.
raw_tags: of a ship
stoically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstəʊ.ɪk.əl.i/
ipa: /ˈstəʊ.ɪk.li/
ipa: /ˈstoʊ.ɪk.əl.i/
ipa: /ˈstoʊ.ɪk.li/
Forms: form: more stoically
form: most stoically
Etymology: From stoical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Frank Connor look the news stoically and, except for a sudden and nearly unnoticed grimace, with no outward show of emotion.
ref: 2010, Christopher Reich, “chapter 41”, in Rules of Betrayal, page 208:
glosses: In a manner that endures pain and hardship without outwardly showing suffering or expressing complaint.
examples: text: Regardless of how involved Carl outwardly appears, inside he holds himself stoically detached.
ref: 1985, Larry Morton Gernsbacher, The Suicide Syndrome: Origins, Manifestations, and Alleviation of Human Self-destructiveness, page 143:
glosses: In an unfeeling manner that inwardly is unaffected by pain or distress.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In a manner consistent with the philosophy of stoicism.
Related terms: stoic
Stoic
stoical
stoicism
tramping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tramp
tramping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trampings
Senses: examples: text: Now we was in the lean-to, and heard trampings close by outside. So we crept to the door, and Tom stopped us there and put his eye to the crack, but couldn't make out nothing, it was so dark
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act or sound of one who tramps, or walks heavily.
glosses: Walking in the countryside for pleasure or sport; hiking
Derived terms: rubber tramping
Tramping Lake
tramped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æmpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tramp
half-lives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-life
Waterloo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwɔːtəˈluː/
ipa: /ˌwɔtɚˈluː/
ipa: /ˈwɔtɚˌluː/
ipa: /ˌwɑtɚˈluː/
ipa: /ˈwɑtɚˌluː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: Waterloos
Etymology: From Middle Dutch, composed of water (“water”) + loo (“sacred wood, forest”). More at water, lea. cf. German Loh. Most places in English-speaking countries are named for the battle.
Senses: examples: text: He flung his dime at a newsboy, got his Express, propped his back against the truck, and was at once rapt in the account of his Waterloo as expanded by the ingenious press.
ref: 1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: John Wanamaker, →ISSN, page 173, column 1:
text: Surprisingly, Greenfield did not meet his Waterloo in this showdown with his competitors.
ref: 2003, Frank Mackey, Steamboat Connections: Montreal to Upper Canada, 1816–1843:
text: The skull ended up as Dubois’ personal Waterloo. His work received nothing but rejection and derision throughout the next decade, and the bones became dark secrets for much of the early twentieth century, locked away in Dubois’ home, unavailable for study by other scholars.
ref: 2003, Craig B. Stanford, Upright: The Evolutionary Key to Becoming Human:
glosses: Often in the term meet one's Waterloo: a notable and decisive defeat following an encounter with a powerful opponent or a problem that is too difficult.
Derived terms: meet one's Waterloo
myo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪoʊ-/
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs, “mouse; muscle”).
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: musculo-
glosses: Muscle.
wikipedia: classical compound
international scientific vocabulary
Derived terms: myomaker
myomerger
myomixer
Related terms: english: not to be confused
translation: not to be confused
word: myelo-
english: flesh
translation: flesh
word: sarco-
lightering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of transferring cargo or fuel off of a sunken or grounded ship, making it easier to refloat.
lightering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lighter
Related terms: lighter
grayish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪ.ɪʃ/
Forms: form: more grayish
form: most grayish
form: greyish
Etymology: From gray + -ish.
Senses: synonyms: grayey
glosses: Somewhat gray.
Synonyms: word: gray
word: grayish
word: grey
word: greyish
word: grisescent
Hypernyms: word: tinted
Hyponyms: word: grizzly
word: mousey
word: pearly
word: argentine
word: silvery
word: cinereous
word: cineritious
word: favillous
word: russet
Derived terms: grayishly
grayishness
rosish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rose + -ish.
Senses: glosses: somewhat rosy; pale pink
violetish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more violetish
form: most violetish
Etymology: From violet + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat violet (in colour).
astro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astros
Senses: examples: text: This week’s astro is way less extreme than last week’s for your sign, and although you’re not getting a ton of action, you’re still making progress.
ref: 2023 August 11, Jake Register, “Your Sex Horoscope for the Weekend”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Clipping of astrology.
glosses: Clipping of astroturf.
napped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: knapped
Derived terms: unnapped
napped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: knapped
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nap
nation-state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nation-states
form: nation state
Etymology: Compound of nation + state. Coined c. 1890s under the influence of European languages; compare German Nationalstaat (from 1840s), Italian Stato-nazione (from 1860s).
Senses: examples: text: Two years on, and while the Sultan of Slowjamastan has instigated more than a few bizarre laws (he’s outlawed the wearing of Crocs, for example), the Republic also has all the trappings of a fledgling nation-state. It issues its own passports, flies its own flag, prints its own currency (“the duble”), and has a national anthem that’s played on state occasions.
ref: 2023 June 8, Richard Collett, “He ran out of countries to visit, so he created his own”, in CNN:
topics: government
politics
coordinate_terms: ethnostate
civilization-state
glosses: A political entity (a state) associated with a common national identity (historically, culturally, or ethnically; as with a nation) and a sovereign territorial unit.
glosses: Any independent political state; a country.
Derived terms: aspirant nation-state
naturalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more naturalistic
form: most naturalistic
Etymology: From naturalist + -ic or natural + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: The genius of High Hopes is in its director's ability to push both his characters and his audience to places they would never think of going. Although the situations are always naturalistic (there is not even any of the arty mise en scene Frears used in Sammy and Rosy or My Beautiful Laundrette), he is not afraid of making his characters caricatures.
ref: 1989 April 22, Michael Bronski, “National Health?”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
text: Each core autistic participant engaged in three naturalistic conversations around the topic of loneliness with: (1) a familiar, chosen conversation partner; (2) a non-autistic stranger and (3) an autistic stranger.
ref: 2021 April 29, Gemma L. Williams, Tim Wharton, Caroline Jagoe, “Mutual (Mis)understanding: Reframing Autistic Pragmatic “Impairments” Using Relevance Theory”, in Frontiers in Psychology, volume 12, →DOI:
glosses: Having the appearance of nature or realism; lifelike or realistic.
glosses: Of or relating to philosophical or methodological naturalism.
Derived terms: antinaturalistic
hypernaturalistic
naturalistically
naturalistic fallacy
nonnaturalistic
quasi-naturalistic
semi-naturalistic
supranaturalistic
unnaturalistic
Ndamba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a language of Tanzania similar to Mbunga and Pogolo.
Ndengeleko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language of Tanzania.
neck of the woods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: necks of the woods
Etymology: See neck (“narrow tract of land”) or from Algonquian naiack ("point" or "corner").
Senses: glosses: A local neighbourhood or region.
glosses: A place or field in which one is comfortable or with which one is familiar.
Related terms: up someone's alley
right up someone's alley
neoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neo- + plastic.
Senses: glosses: of or relating to a neoplasm, neoplastics, neoplasty or neoplasia
Derived terms: antineoplastic
nonneoplastic
paraneoplastic
preneoplastic
proneoplastic
Related terms: neoplastically
neoplasticity
Ngoreme
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a Bantu language of Tanzania
nisus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nisuses
Etymology: From Latin nīsus (“pressure, exertion”).
Senses: examples: text: The godly personality of a higher order, as the telos of the nisus of moral categoriality, is the sensus plenior of the nisus to a universal communalization of perspectives.
ref: 1992, J.G. Hart, The Person and the Common Life: Studies in a Husserlian Social Ethics, page 363:
text: The immanent nisus to completion, therefore, drives the complex to the explication of its internal relations so that they become recognizable as such.
ref: 2006, Errol E. Harris, Reflections on the Problem of Consciousness, page 158:
glosses: A mental or physical effort to attain a specific goal; a striving.
glosses: The periodic procreative desire manifested in the spring by birds, etc.
examples: 1833, James O' Beirne, New Views on the Process of Defecation, and Their Application to the Pathology and Treatment of Diseases of the Stomach, Bowels, and Other Organs, quoted in 1833, John Johnson (editor), The Medico-Chirurgical Review, New Series: Volume 19 (Volume 23 of the Analytical Series), page 7,
The evacuation of the rectum and bladder being completed, immediately the nisus ceases, the rectum and the sphincters return to their former state of contraction, the diaphragm reascends, carrying with it and restoring to their proper situations the liver, the stomach, the spleen, the small intestines, the cæcum, and the ascending, transverse and descending portions of the colon.
glosses: The contraction of the diaphragm and abdominal muscles to evacuate faeces or urine.
clinkery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From clinker + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having the characteristics of clinker.
no good
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: That boy's no good: it's no use our trying to fix it!
glosses: worthless or of no merit
examples: text: What good is it asking you? It's no good talking to you: you never listen.
glosses: useless
examples: text: You have no good excuse to do that!
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see no, good.
Derived terms: nogoodnik
Related terms: any good
no-good
no fun
🆖
nomologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nomology + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to nomology.
Deseret
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛz.əˈɹɛt/
ipa: /dɛz.ɚ.ɛt/
Etymology: From the Book of Mormon, in which the word is said to mean honey bee in the language of the Jaredites.
Senses: examples: text: In 1849 the Mormons organized a "free and independent" government and erected the "State of Deseret," with Brigham Young as its head. But the very next year Congress deliberately snubbed it and created the "Territory of Utah" out of the same accumulation of mountains, sage-brush, alkali and general desolation, -- but made Brigham Governor of it.
ref: 1872, Mark Twain, “Appendix A”, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Co.:
glosses: A state, proposed in 1849 and never recognized, which would have included most of Utah and Nevada and parts of other states.
examples: text: Nearly 1,000 people attended tours of the 15,000-resident city, a dinner and a ceremony to commemorate Utah's Jan. 4 birthday, when the land of Deseret became an arm of the Union.
ref: 1998 January 4, Jeffrey P. Haney, “Lehi takes center stage at Statehood Day events”, in Deseret News, Lehi, Utah: Deseret News Publishing Co.:
glosses: The state of Utah itself, especially the Salt Lake Valley and environs.
glosses: A script, invented in Utah, conceived of as a radical reform and replacement of the Latin script, intended for writing English phonetically. Example: the word seven in Deseret is 𐑅𐐯𐑂𐐮𐑌.
Related terms: State of Deseret
indecision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪʒən
ipa: /ɪndɪˈsɪʒ(ə)n/
Forms: form: indecisions
Etymology: From French indécision.
Senses: examples: text: Billy Toad has shown extreme indecision in all aspects when it comes to his jeep. Whether it's how to modify it, or if he will sell it.
text: There was no indecision or delay in the establishment of their relations; Rebecca's heart flew like an arrow to its mark, and her mind, meeting its superior, settled at once into an abiding attitude of respectful homage.
ref: 1903, Kate Douglas Wiggin, chapter 21, in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm:
text: Moreover, in view of the lamentable present indecision of the Government in regard to electrification, the large-scale building of diesel power may prove to have been a farseeing move after all.
ref: 1961 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 86:
text: I can't stand this indecision
Married with a lack of vision
Everybody wants to rule the—
ref: 1985, Roland Orzabal, Ian Stanley, Chris Hughes, “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”, in Songs from the Big Chair, performed by Tears for Fears:
glosses: The inability to decide on a course of action, especially if two or more possibilities exist.
Synonyms: sense: inability to decide
word: indecisiveness
assemblage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɛmblɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: assemblages
Etymology: Borrowed from French assemblage. By surface analysis, assemble + -age.
Senses: examples: text: the assemblage of words and recordings
glosses: The process of assembling or bringing together.
examples: text: The tomb contained percussion, string and wind instruments in a remarkable state of preservation, including the largest assemblage of Bronze Age bells ever recovered. Discovered in 1977, near the city of Suizhou in Hubei Province in central China, the tomb, from the fifth century B.C., has long been considered "one of the most significant archeological discoveries of the 20th century," said Peter A. Young, editor in chief of the magazine.
ref: 1994 January 18, Glen Collins, “Bells of Bronze Age Show the Complexity Of Old China's Music”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 May 2015, Arts:
glosses: A collection of things which have been gathered together or assembled.
examples: text: But scarce was supper well over, before a change so incredible was wrought in me, such violent, yet pleasingly irksome sensations took possession of me that I scarce knew how to contain myself; the smart of the lashes was now converted into such a prickly heat, such fiery tinglings, as made me sigh, squeeze my thighs together, shift and wriggle about my seat, with a furious restlessness; whilst these itching ardours, thus excited in those parts on which the storm of discipline had principally fallen, detached legions of burning, subtile, stimulating spirits, to their opposite spot and centre of assemblage, where their titillation raged so furiously, that I was even stinging mad with them.
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
text: Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A gathering of people.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A group of different artifacts found in association with one another.
topics: art
arts
glosses: A visual art form similar to collage, which combines two-dimensional and three-dimensional, often found, elements into works of art.
Derived terms: word: assemblage point
word: assemblage theory
word: assemblagist
word: faunal assemblage
word: ichnoassemblage
word: interassemblage
word: of assemblage
word: palynoassemblage
word: reassemblage
word: subassemblage
word: superassemblage
Related terms: collage
worrying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌɹijˌɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈwʌɹijˌɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈwɝijˌɪŋ/
Forms: form: more worrying
form: most worrying
Etymology: From worry + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Moldova did give England's under-employed keeper Joe Hart a worrying moment when Igor Armas sent a free header wide but otherwise it was an easy night.
ref: 2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport:
text: Redundancies accounted for a smaller proportion of the change, although no less significant to those affected. Rail News, BR's staff magazine, included a coda to its August 1964 assessment of the Beeching cuts: "For the individuals involved it is a worrying time [...] Rail News feels deeply for those affected and expresses the sympathy of its readers with them."
ref: 2023 March 22, Mike Esbester, “Staff, the public and industry will suffer”, in RAIL, number 979, page 39:
synonyms: disquieting
glosses: Inducing worry.
worrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌɹijˌɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈwʌɹijˌɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈwɝijˌɪŋ/
Etymology: From worry + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of worry
worrying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌɹijˌɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈwʌɹijˌɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈwɝijˌɪŋ/
Forms: form: worryings
Etymology: From Middle English werying, equivalent to worry + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “Retribution”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 594:
glosses: The act of worrying or harassing somebody.
guardianship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guardianships
Etymology: From guardian + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Forbidden to you are your mothers and your daughters and your sisters and your paternal aunts and your maternal aunts and brothers' daughters and sisters' daughters and your mothers that have suckled you and your foster-sisters and mothers of your wives and your step-daughters who are in your guardianship, (born) of your wives to whom you have gone in, but if you have not gone in to them, there is no blame on you (in marrying them), and the wives of your sons who are of your own loins and that you should have two sisters together, except what has already passed; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
ref: 1917, Maulana Muhammad Ali (translator), Qu’ran The Women, 4.23
text: An application for guardianship must be founded on two medical recommendations, the procedure being similar to an application for admission for treatment.
ref: 1986, Philip Bean, Mental Disorder and Legal Control, page 84:
glosses: The office or position of one acting as a guardian or conservator, especially in a legal capacity.
Synonyms: tutelarity
embellishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈbɛlɪʃmənt/
Forms: form: embellishments
Etymology: From embellish + -ment.
Senses: glosses: An act of embellishing.
examples: text: Reflection had given calmness to her judgment, and sobered her own opinion of Willoughby's deserts; — she wished, therefore, to declare only the simple truth, and lay open such facts as were really due to his character, without any embellishment of tenderness to lead the fancy astray.
ref: 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Section 3, Chapter 1:
synonyms: word: adornment
word: decoration
word: embellishment
word: ornament
word: ornamentation
glosses: An added touch; an ornamental addition; a flourish.
Derived terms: overembellishment
Renner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Renners
Senses: glosses: A surname.
akka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: akkas
Senses: glosses: An elder sister.
soaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: By surface analysis, soak + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of soak
soaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soakings
Etymology: By surface analysis, soak + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: "We came on a wild-goose chase", grumbled one, as he stirred the fire. "Got nothing but a soaking for our pains".
ref: 1906, Horatio Alger, chapter 2, in Joe the Hotel Boy, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2014:
glosses: Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.
examples: text: That's probably why everyone is already having anal sex in ninth grade. I mean, let's face it, even the Mormons are soaking.
ref: 2017, Carrie Keagan, Dibs Baer, Everybody Curses, I Swear!: Uncensored Tales from the Hollywood Trenches, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 240:
text: Mormonism is a culture very much predicated on puritanical commitments […] the Amazon series Alpha House […] made much of Mormon soaking, an alternative sex practice engaged in by two LDS characters on the show. Soaking basically allows for penis-vagina penetration but absolutely no friction. Insertion is OK; pumping will send you to hell.
ref: 2019, Brenda R. Weber, Latter-day Screens: Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism, Duke University Press, →ISBN:
text: This all-or-nothing attitude implies that penetration equal sex. (Although throngs of folks raised in abstinence-based religions might [take this view]. My favorite is the Mormon concept of "soaking," which means a man sticks his penis in a vagina but doesn't move it around, therefore it somehow doesn't count as sex. Gimme a break.)
ref: 2021, Rachel Allyn, The Pleasure Is All Yours: Reclaim Your Body’s Bliss and Reignite Your Passion for Life, Shambhala Publications, →ISBN, page 226:
glosses: The practice of inserting a penis into a vagina and remaining stationary, without thrusting, supposedly used by some conservative Christians in lieu of traditional sexual intercourse.
soaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soaking
form: most soaking
Etymology: By surface analysis, soak + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: I shuddered as I stood and looked round me: it was an inclement day for outdoor exercise; not positively rainy, but darkened by a drizzling yellow fog; all under foot was still soaking wet with the floods of yesterday.
ref: 1847, Charlotte Bronte, chapter 5, in Jane Eyre, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2014:
glosses: Extremely wet; saturated.
glosses: Of rain, heavy but slow enough to penetrate deeply into the top soil.
Derived terms: soaking wet
secreted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sēʹkrətĭd
ipa: /ˈsiːkɹə.tɪd/
ipa: /ˈsi.krə.tɪd/
Forms: form: secretted
Etymology: From secret.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of secret
secreted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sēʹkrətĭd
ipa: /ˈsiːkɹə.tɪd/
ipa: /ˈsi.krə.tɪd/
enpr: sĭkrēʹtĭd
ipa: /sɪˈkɹiːtɪd/
ipa: /səˈkɹi.tɪd/
enpr: sēʹkrətĭd
ipa: /ˈsiːkɹə.tɪd/
ipa: /ˈsi.krə.tɪd/
Etymology: From secrete.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of secrete
pop someone's cherry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pops someone's cherry
form: popping someone's cherry
form: popped someone's cherry
form: popped someone's cherry
Senses: glosses: To take the virginity of someone.
Related terms: pop the cherry
employing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of employ
spanning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of span
spanning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spannings
Senses: examples: text: The immediate symbolism of these spannings of musical space is evident, but they also contain references to the work's musical motto […]
ref: 1996, Peter Evans, The music of Benjamin Britten:
glosses: The process by which something is spanned.
Derived terms: spanning tree
deified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deify
sanctum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæŋktəm/
Forms: form: sanctums
form: sancta
Etymology: From Latin sānctum (“that which is holy”).
Senses: examples: text: As he descended the stairs, two persons passed him, so remarkably dissimilar in their persons, dress, and carriage, that he could not forbear to look earnestly at them, as forming a criterion of the mixed character of company admissible in such places, and which was to him (with his preconceived notions of the inviolability of the female sanctum) an insuperable objection to such scenes of general resort.
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXIX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 200:
text: For myself, I had no need to make any change; I should not be called upon to quit my sanctum of the schoolroom; for a sanctum it was now become to me, – "a very pleasant refuge in time of trouble."
ref: 1848, Charlotte Bronte, chapter 17, in Jane Eyre:
text: A diary, after all, is a sanctum for self-confession.
ref: 1984 April 14, Richard Knisely, “Quintessential Narcissism”, in Gay Community News, page 13:
text: His colleagues quailed when, in 1986, he first sat on the court as a brash 50-year-old whose experience had been mostly as a combative government lawyer: a justice who, in that sanctum of columns and deep judicial silence, was suddenly firing questions like grapeshot.
ref: 2016 February 20, “Obituary: Antonin Scalia: Always right”, in The Economist:
glosses: A place set apart, as with a sanctum sanctorum; a sacred or private place; a private retreat or workroom.
Derived terms: inner sanctum
redivider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redividers
Etymology: From redivide + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The communes are still very real, of course, but their organs serve primarily as communications conduits and allocations redividers.
ref: 1976, James D. Seymour, China--the Politics of Revolutionary Reintegration, page 207:
text: TRIANGLE REDIVIDER
ref: 1998, Toshiaki Takahashi et al., Navigation system, method for stereoscopically displaying topographic map for the navigation system, and recording medium for recording the method, US Patent 6121972, page 25:
text: […] a mark redivider that receives said second output, redivides said mark in accordance with information of said period, and stores said redivided mark; […]
ref: 1999, Mitsutoshi Arai, Pattern matching coding device using pattern matching and coding method therefor, US Patent 6445821, page 12:
glosses: Agent noun of redivide: something that divides or apportions again.
examples: text: Latter-day puzzle makers in a direct lineage from Carroll’s tradition and even more extreme instances of segmentation oddities in what are called redividers (Michaelsen, 1998), for example, observing that the sentence “In every ode linger many” can be resegmented to read “I never yodel in Germany” (Shortz, 1997); such cases serve to point out the duality of the problems of gap assignment and boundary detection, and also inject a combinatorial flavor.
ref: 2001, David B. Searls, “From Jabberwocky to Genome: Lewis Carroll and Computational Biology”, in Journal of Computational Biology, volume 8, number 3, page 344:
qualifier: puzzles
glosses: A sequence of letters that can be segmented into two or more different sentences
Related terms: redivision
redivide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redivides
form: redividing
form: redivided
form: redivided
Etymology: From re- + divide.
Senses: glosses: To divide again.
racecar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: racecars
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of race car.