cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
temporo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Combining form of Latin tempora.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: temporal: temples
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: temporal: temples
temporal lobe of the brain
examples: temporospatial
synonyms: chrono-
glosses: temporal: time
deturb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈtɜː(ɹ)b/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)b
Forms: form: deturbs
form: deturbing
form: deturbed
form: deturbed
Etymology: Latin deturbare.
Senses: glosses: To throw down.
Related terms: deturbate
deturbation
deturbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deturb
deturbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deturb
deturbs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deturb
schizognathism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The state of a bird having a schizognathous palate.
thermomultiplier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermomultipliers
Etymology: From thermo- + multiplier.
Senses: glosses: A thermopile.
glosses: A machine that is a cross between a thermopile and a galvanometer.
thermomultipliers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermomultiplier
dragman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dragmen
Etymology: From drag + -man.
Senses: examples: text: great riots committed by the foresters and Welsh upon the dragmen of Severn , hewing all their boats to pieces , and drowning the bargemen in a warlike posture
ref: 1736, Matthew Hale, Historia Placitorum Coronæ:
glosses: A fisherman who uses a dragnet.
dragmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dragman
intromitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intromitters
Etymology: From intromit + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who intromits.
intromitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intromitter
antitrochanter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antitrochanters
Etymology: From anti- + trochanter.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An articular surface on the ilium of birds against which the great trochanter of the femur plays
Derived terms: antitrochanteric
antitrochanters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antitrochanter
mesocoracoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesocoracoids
Etymology: From meso- + coracoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A process from the middle of the coracoid in some animals.
mesocoracoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesocoracoid
ricinelaidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ricinelaidic acid + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The glycerin salt of ricinelaidic acid, obtained as a white crystalline waxy substance by treating castor oil with nitrous acid.
thyrohyoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌθaɪ.ɹoʊˈhaɪˌɔɪd/
rhymes: -aɪɔɪd
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin thyreohȳoīdēs, from thyreoīdēs (“shield-shaped”) + hȳoīdēs (“U-shaped”); equivalent to thyro- + hyoid. Doublet of thyrohyoideus.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the thyroid cartilage of the larynx and the hyoid arch.
Derived terms: thyrohyoid arch
thyrohyoid membrane
thyrohyoid muscle
thyrohyoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌθaɪ.ɹoʊˈhaɪˌɔɪd/
rhymes: -aɪɔɪd
Forms: form: thyrohyoids
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin thyreohȳoīdēs, from thyreoīdēs (“shield-shaped”) + hȳoīdēs (“U-shaped”); equivalent to thyro- + hyoid. Doublet of thyrohyoideus.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of thyrohyoid muscle.
hyoid arch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyoid arches
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: word: hyoidean arch
glosses: The second pharyngeal arch, which assists in forming the side and front of the neck.
choleriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more choleriform
form: most choleriform
Etymology: From cholera + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: choleriform diarrhea
glosses: Resembling cholera.
checkerwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: checkerworks
form: chequerwork
Etymology: From checker + work.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of checkwork.
synonyms: word: checkwork
examples: text: How strange a checkerwork of Providence is the life of man.
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:
glosses: A mishmash
checkerworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of checkerwork
chequerwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chequerworks
Etymology: From chequer + work.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of checkerwork.
chequerworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chequerwork
black salts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Crude potash
Gothic double
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gothic doubles
Senses: examples: text: Robert Louis Stevenson's "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" involves a Gothic double.
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: An essential duality within a single character, centred on the polarity of good and evil.
doteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dotery
dotery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doteries
Etymology: From dote + -ery?
Senses: glosses: senility or drivel.
entierties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entierty
entierty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entierties
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of entirety.
featurely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more featurely
form: most featurely
Etymology: From feature + -ly.
Senses: examples: 23 October, 1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk
featurely warriors of Christian chivalry
glosses: Having particular features; marked with peculiarities or with good looks.
Derived terms: featureliness
strewment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strewments
Etymology: From strew + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: a strewment of flowers/rushes
text: Her maiden strewments, and the bringing home
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: Anything scattered; a scattering
tentories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tentory
tentory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tentories
Etymology: Latin tentorium (“a tent”).
Senses: examples: text: And the Women mentioned who are said to weave Hangings and Curtains for the Grove, were no other than Makers of Tentories, to spread from Tree to Tree, for the more opportune and secret perpetration of those impure Rites and Mysteries, which (without these Coverings) even the opacousness of the Places were not obscure enough to conceal.
ref: 1729, John Evelyn, Silva: or, a discource of Forest-Trees, And the Propagation of Timber in His Majesty's Dominions:
glosses: The awning or covering of a tent.
lifesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: līf'səm
ipa: /ˈlaɪfsəm/
rhymes: -aɪfsəm
Forms: form: more lifesome
form: most lifesome
Etymology: From life + -some.
Senses: examples: text: My sister may not visit us,
My mother says her nay:
O Edward! you are all to me,
I wish for your sake I could be
More lifesome and more gay.
ref: 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Three Graves:
text: "[…] but I won't tell you a lie if I can help it; and for all I haven't it chapter and verse, it's wonderful lifesome, too ."
ref: 1887, Littell's Living Age, volume 172, page 138:
text: Katie is not suggesting that everyone quit driving cold turkey, just that it is quite possible to make the segue from cars to more lifesome alternatives.
ref: 2002, Stephanie Mills, Epicurean Simplicity, page 101:
glosses: Characterised by liveliness; animated; eventful.
Derived terms: lifesomeness
lifesomely
transcendentness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From transcendent + -ness.
Senses: glosses: transcendence
transcendentals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transcendental
libratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: libratory motion
glosses: Balancing or oscillatory; tending towards a counterbalance.
glosses: of or pertaining to libration
Related terms: Libra
hully
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hully
form: most hully
Etymology: From hull + -y.
Senses: examples: text: hully cotton
text: hully fibre
text: hully material
glosses: Having or containing hulls (peel, shell etc.).
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: hully gee
english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: hully gully
alation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alations
Etymology: Borrowed from French, from Latin alatus (“winged”).
Senses: glosses: The state of being winged.
examples: text: Sculpture of strong wing-like structures or alations, initiated first below the smooth nuclear whorls as broad and somewhat flattened axial ridges, which on the sixth whorl become slightly oblique and expanded […]
ref: 1940, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Collected Reprints, page 117:
glosses: A wing or wing-like structure.
Derived terms: dealation
alations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alation
cercopod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cercopods
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: examples: text: The long, slender terminal segment bears two very long, narrow cercopods ending in one large and several small setæ[…]
ref: 1877, Alpheus Spring Packard, A Monograph of the Phyllopod Crustacea of North America:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: cercus.
cercopods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cercopod
in-and-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An old game played with four dice, a double being referred to as "in" and two doubles as "in-and-in".
in-and-in
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: an in-and-in bred bull
glosses: Produced by inbreeding.
Related terms: breed in and in
incognitant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incognitant
form: most incognitant
Senses: glosses: ignorant
iodyrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iodyrites
Etymology: From iodine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a natural mineral form of silver iodide
butterbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butterbirds
Etymology: From butter + bird, from its fatness.
Senses: glosses: The bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus).
butterbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butterbird
brigandism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brigandisms
Etymology: From brigand + -ism.
Senses: synonyms: banditry
brigandage
glosses: Crime carried out by brigands.
brigandisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brigandism
mandragorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mandragorites
Etymology: From mandragora + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: There were those who drank of it for taste or pleasure; and who were spoken of as "mandragorites," as we might speak of alcoholics or chloralists. They passed into the land of sleep and dream, and waking up in scare and alarm were the screaming mandrakes of an ancient civilization.
ref: 1879 August 16, Littell's Living Age, page 427, column 2:
text: A mandragorite was a term applied to one addicted to mandrake as a narcotic.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 145:
glosses: One who uses mandrake as a narcotic drug
mandragorites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mandragorite
disproval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disprovals
Etymology: From disprove + -al.
Senses: glosses: The act of disproving; disproof.
glosses: disapproval
disprovals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disproval
disarrayment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disarray + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: if we can but keep our ſelves from inward Enemies , our vices , our weaknesses , and our own disarayments
ref: 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
glosses: disorder; disarray
shotproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shotproof
form: most shotproof
Etymology: From shot + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Not penetrable by shot; bulletproof.
examples: text: Well, I didn't know it was that fellow, else I would have had a shot at him at once, before he had time to make himself shot-proof, but I thought it was great fun to watch him.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 73:
topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: Of quarry, reputedly unable to be shot.
Barrowist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Barrowists
Etymology: From Barrowe + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A follower of Henry Barrowe (c. 1550–1593), English Puritan and separatist.
Related terms: Barrowism
Barrowists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Barrowist
misconceit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪskənˈsiːt/
Forms: form: misconceits
form: misconceipt
Etymology: From Middle English misconceite, equivalent to mis- + conceit.
Senses: examples: text: Full of melancholy and sad misfare ,
Through misconceit ; all unawares espide
An armed Knight
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: misconception
misconceit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /mɪskənˈsiːt/
Forms: form: misconceits
form: misconceiting
form: misconceited
form: misconceited
form: misconceipt
Etymology: From Middle English misconceite, equivalent to mis- + conceit.
Senses: glosses: To form a wrong opinion about; to misconceive.
misconceits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misconceit
buscon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buscons
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish buscón (“searcher”), from buscar (“to search”).
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A prospector (someone who searches for ore).
buscons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buscon
epileptoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛpɪˈlɛptɔɪd/
Forms: form: more epileptoid
form: most epileptoid
Etymology: From epileptic + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: A spasm of violent nausea seized him and he turned up his eyes into his head in a frightening grimace which seemed almost epileptoid.
ref: 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 983:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Resembling epilepsy.
Derived terms: canine epileptoid cramping syndrome
epileptoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛpɪˈlɛptɔɪd/
Forms: form: epileptoids
Etymology: From epileptic + -oid.
Senses: glosses: A person with epilepsy.
insusceptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insusceptive
form: most insusceptive
Etymology: From in- + susceptive.
Senses: examples: text: All this had no effect, the sailor was wholly insusceptive of the softer passions, and without regard to tears or arguments persisted in his resolution to make me a man.
ref: 1752, Rambler: A Periodical Paper:
glosses: Not susceptive or susceptible.
atomician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atomicians
Etymology: From atomic + -ian.
Senses: glosses: An atomist.
atomicians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atomician
high-blown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more high-blown
form: most high-blown
Senses: examples: text: But farre beyond my depth: my high-blowne Pride
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: Nothing could less resemble the high blown ambition of the favourite courtier, the successful gallant, and the bold warrior than the submissive, unassuming mediciner, who seemed even to court and delight in insult
ref: 1828 May 15, [Walter Scott], chapter XXII, in Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. […] (The Fair Maid of Perth), volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC:
text: turn Thou their strength to water, and bring their high-blown pride to nought
ref: 1887, H[enry] Rider Haggard, chapter I, in Allan Quatermain:
glosses: elevated (normally said of pride or conceit)
monodynamism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + dynamism.
Senses: examples: text: Side by side with this tentative and growing monotheism there is a bold and unhesitating monodynamism, the efforts of all the early thinkers being to reduce all the powers of nature to one principle
ref: 1867, George Henry Lewes, The History of Philosophy from Thales to Comte, volume 1:
glosses: The theory that the various forms of activity in nature are manifestations of the same force.
incongenial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incongenial
form: most incongenial
Etymology: From in- + congenial.
Senses: glosses: Not congenial.
Related terms: incongeniality
swarty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈswɔː(ɹ)ti/
Forms: form: more swarty
form: most swarty
Etymology: From swart + -y.
Senses: examples: text: From these first qualities arise many other second, as that of colour, black, swarty, pale, ruddy , &c.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
text: Suddenly, the short, swarty man was again before us with his broad smile, so ill suited to the grim glint of his eyes, beckoning to us to gather round him.
ref: 2002, Corneliu Leu, The Islands:
text: “This chile getting swartier every day,” he would complain to Mama, or he would cock his head towards the kitchen door and say, “Remember what happen to Mrs. Spence? That's exactly where you headin'!”
ref: 2016, Melanie Schwapp, Dew Angels:
glosses: swarthy; tawny
arseniuret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɑː(ɹ)ˌsiːnɪjʊˈɹɛt/
Forms: form: arseniurets
Etymology: From arsenic + -uret, attested since 1807, displaced by arsenide in the 1860s, obsolete by the end of the century.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An arsenide.
arseniurets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arseniuret
Higgs bosons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Higgs boson
recensure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recensures
form: recensuring
form: recensured
form: recensured
Etymology: From re- + censure.
Senses: glosses: To censure again.
rimae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪˌmi/
Senses: glosses: plural of rima
rimula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rimulae
Senses: glosses: A small crack or fissure.
rimulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rimula
rotans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rotan
torpescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more torpescent
form: most torpescent
Etymology: From Latin torpescens.
Senses: examples: text: Of words indeed profuse,
Of gold tenacious, their torpescent ſoul
Clenches their coin
ref: a. 1763, William Shenstone, Economy: A Rhapsody, addressed to young poets:
glosses: Becoming torpid or numb.
mind the gap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Don't tell me to mind the gap / I want my fucking money back!
ref: 2005, “London Underground”, performed by Amateur Transplants:
text: I once interviewed the man who made the first 'Mind the Gap' announcement: the one that reverberated for about thirty years on the Central Line at Bank, on the Bakerloo at Waterloo, and on the northbound Northern Line at Embankment.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 220:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Be careful of the gap between the vehicle and the platform it is near, in boarding or alighting; wide gaps between train and platform are caused by curved tracks and platforms in some stations.
elfen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more elfen
form: most elfen
Etymology: From elf + -en. Compare elfin, elven.
Senses: examples: text: ALFHILD. Were I an elfen maid, then truly, say I, it would fare with you ill! / OLAF. Forsooth, then are you the elfen maid!
ref: 1857, Olaf Liliekrans, A Play in Three Acts:
glosses: Belonging to, or relating to, elves.
Derived terms: elfenfolk
tubulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tubuli
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of tubule.
Masr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Classical Arabic مِصْر (miṣr) which originates from the Ancient Biblical Aramaic [script needed] (miṣrāyim), with the dual suffix -āyim, perhaps referring to the `two Egypts`: Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt.
مَصْر (maṣr) is the colloquial Egyptian Arabic pronunciation.
Senses: examples: text: The name of Cairo is a contraction of the title given to it by its founder of " Masr-el-Kahira," or "The Victory of Egypt," Masr signifying Egypt.
ref: 1898, Joseph Pollard, The land of the monuments: notes of Egyptian travel, page 37:
text: An epithet to its name, misri, indicates Masr or Egypt as its home.
ref: 2002, Moustafa Gadalla, Egyptian rhythm: the heavenly melodies, page 107:
text: Masr, meaning both the capital and the land of Egypt
ref: 2010, Dan Richardson, Daniel Jacobs, The Rough Guide to Egypt, page 73:
glosses: Egypt
Miṣr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of مصر
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Masr.
chazzerai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈxɑːzəɹaɪ/
/ˈhɑːzəɹaɪ/
Forms: form: chozzerai
form: khazeray
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish חזירײַ (khazeray, “filth, mess, dirty trick”), from Hebrew חזיר (khazír, “pig”).
Senses: examples: text: That movie was nothing but chazzerai.
glosses: Junk; trash; anything worthless.
examples: text: Who could eat such chazzerai?
glosses: Food that is awful
examples: text: A good deal of contemporary theater strikes me as chazzerai.
glosses: Anything disgusting or loathsome.
Related terms: chazzer
Bates number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bates numbers
Etymology: Derived from Bates, the surname of the inventor of the first serial number-stamping machine.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A number affixed to a document indicating its number in a series of documents, usually with respect to evidentiary documents being provided to the other party in a legal proceeding.
Synonyms: Bates stamp
Related terms: Bates numbering
Bates stamping
Bates branding
Bates coding
Bates labeling
Bates number
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Bates numbers
form: Bates numbering
form: Bates numbered
form: Bates numbered
Etymology: Derived from Bates, the surname of the inventor of the first serial number-stamping machine.
Senses: examples: text: When Bates numbering documents for production, remove any documents among them that are not relevant or not covered by the request before Bates numbering […]
ref: 2006, Robert J. MacPherson, Buckner Hinkle, W. Alexander Moseley, Discovery deskbook for construction disputes, page 73:
glosses: To stamp or label documents with Bates numbers.
Christmas rose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Christmas roses
Senses: examples: text: Christmas rose (black hellebore), strewn on the floor or burned, drove away witches.
ref: 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 272:
glosses: A plant that flowers near Christmas.
of various species of Helleborus, especially Helleborus niger.
glosses: A plant that flowers near Christmas.
of species Hydrangea macrophylla.
Related terms: Christmas cactus
Bates numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bates number
Bates numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Bates number
aspirement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aspirements
Etymology: From aspire + -ment.
Senses: glosses: aspiration (desire)
aspirements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aspirement
holostean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holosteans
Etymology: Holostei + -an
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any fish of the class or infraclass Holostei.
Nicaragua wood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: brazilwood
proportionment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proportionments
Etymology: From proportion + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of dividing out proportionally.
proportionments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proportionment
reprobatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reprobatory
form: most reprobatory
Etymology: From reprobate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: [H]e brings out a crumpled piece of paper, and displays it in approved Dr. Marigold style, "Here's what the arsenic or strychnine was in, but now it is mixed with the dishes, knives, forks, spoons, biscuits, beef, &c.; in fact, our pantry and store-room are worse than a score of Pritchard's." Grand chorus, reprobatory of Max, who takes it very coolly, and says he daresays Dick has just spilt it, "his fingers being all thumbs," but never to mind, as he won't use any of the things till he has cleaned out the chest.
ref: 1870 February–March, David Leslie, “Wild Life in South Africa”, in W[illiam] H[enry] Drummond, editor, Among the Zulus and Amatongas: With Sketches of the Natives, Their Language and Customs; and the Country, Products, Climate, Wild Animals, &c. […], Glasgow: […] W[illiam] Gilchrist, […], published 1875, →OCLC, section VI (A Night Round the Fire), page 132:
text: There is yet another proverb in this stanza, confirmed by its presence in [Joseph] Morawski’s collection (1457): “En doit faire quant leus et tens en est,” a northern French version of what Peire Vidal states in the third line of this reprobatory strophe: “It is better to act while life is present.”
ref: 1997, Wendy Pfeffer, “Peire Vidal”, in Proverbs in Medieval Occitan Literature, Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, →ISBN, chapter 4 (At the Midpoint in Troubadour Time), page 66:
glosses: Synonym of reprobative.
synonyms: word: reprobative
misadvice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misadvices
Etymology: From mis- + advice.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: bad advice
Related terms: misadvise
misadvices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misadvice
subobscurely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From subobscure + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: O my God, (euer conſtant to thine ovvne vvayes), thou haſt proceeded opẽly [openly], intelligibly, manifeſtly, by the book. […] [F]rõ [from] thy ſecond book, the booke of Nature, vvher though ſubobſcurely, and in ſhadovvs, thou haſt expreſſed thine ovvn Image; […]
ref: 1624, John Donne, “IX. Expostulation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, pages 217–218:
glosses: Somewhat obscurely or darkly.
cyclometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyclo- + -metry.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The measurement of circles, including calculating circumference, arcs, angles etc.
conventioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conventioners
Etymology: From convention + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who belongs to a convention or assembly.
Related terms: conventionist
conventioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conventioner
dissidently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dissidently
form: most dissidently
Etymology: From dissident + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dissident manner.
chippier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of chippy: more chippy
chippiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of chippy: most chippy
modelize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: modelizes
form: modelizing
form: modelized
form: modelized
Etymology: From model + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: [F]or the more modellizing, or enamelling, or rather diamondizing of your ſubiect, you ſhall perceiue the Hipotheſis, or Galaxia, (vvhereof the Meteors long ſince had their Initiall inceptions and Notions) to be meerely Pithagoricall, Mathematicall, and Aristocraticall: […]
ref: 1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act III, scene i, signature I, recto:
glosses: To model.
Derived terms: new modelize
modelized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of modelize
modelizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of modelize
modelizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of modelize
multiscious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multiscious
form: most multiscious
Etymology: From Latin multiscius, from multus (“much”) + scius (“knowing”), from scire (“to know”).
Senses: glosses: Having much or varied knowledge.
Synonyms: polymathic
mischoose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mischooses
form: mischoosing
form: mischose
form: mischosen
Etymology: From Middle English mischeosen, mischesen, equivalent to mis- + choose.
Senses: examples: text: Up to a certain point he was a free agent , he could choose his path ; he mischose it , and he was in the toils of necessity
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:
glosses: To choose incorrectly or badly; to make a wrong choice.
mischooses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mischoose
mischoosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mischoose
mischose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of mischoose
mischosen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of mischoose
pinholds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinhold
antestomach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antestomachs
Etymology: From ante- + stomach.
Senses: examples: text: it is immediately swalled into […]a kind of Antestomach ( which I have observ'd in many , especially Piscivorous Birds ) where it is moistned and mollified by some proper Juice from the Glandules distilling in there.
ref: 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A cavity that leads into the stomach, as in birds.
examples: text: The physiological significance of microorganisms in the antestomach of ruminants .
ref: 1926, Botanical Abstracts - Volume 15, page 177:
text: The disturbance of the eructation reflex owing to the lacking permanent mechanical stimulation of the walls of the antestomach may be considered one of the reasons why the balanced reactions of rumination do not take place.
ref: 1958, Doklady: Reports of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR., page 13:
text: A high-milking cow should be distinguished by higher activity of the thyroid and in addition, in the antestomach of such an animal the molar percentage of acetate should obviously be increased, and vice versa, the higher the propionic and butyric acid content of the rumen the lesser should be the fat content of the milk accompanied by a corresponding decrease in the milk yield.
ref: 1962, G. Azimov, “The Thyroid, the Processes in the Rumen and the Fat Content of Milk”, in Contributions v. A-C, page 112:
glosses: The first stomach of a ruminant.
examples: text: Fleiner calls attention to the existence of spindle-shaped dilation of the esophagus above the diaphragm, a condition that is termed antestomach, and to a similar condition of the subdiaphragmatic part of the esophagus, nown as "antrum cardiacum.". He has seen six instances of antestomach.
ref: 1900 July 14, “A New Contribution to the Pathology of the Esophagus”, in The Philadelphia Medical Journal, volume 6, page 68:
text: He had attempted to produce cancer in the antestomach of the rats, by painting them with tar in or around the mouth.
ref: 1949, Acta Pathologica Et Microbiologica Scandinavica, page 22:
glosses: The lower portion of the esophagus in an animal that has a sphincter controlling the entrance of food from the esophagus into the stomach, especially when that portion of the esophagus is distended or dilated.
antestomachs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antestomach
tracklessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From trackless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without a track.
hangi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hangis
form: hangi
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori hāngī.
Senses: examples: text: The ovens were used to cook food in identical fashion to the Maori hangi and the Papuan stone ovens.
ref: 2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 134:
glosses: A traditional Māori pit oven, in which (suitably wrapped) raw food is lain on a base of heated stones.
examples: text: He glanced at the formal setting in front of him, wishing he could be at a marae eating hangi right now.
ref: 2015, Anne Ashby, Worlds Collide:
glosses: Food cooked in this way.
hangis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hangi
cyberanarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + anarchy.
Senses: examples: text: If we want to avoid a cyberanarchy, we need a cyberorder to emerge, and emerge quickly.
ref: 1998, John Kerry, The New War: The Web of Crime That Threatens America's Security:
text: The stress on cyberanarchy disguises the non-democratic features of my dream.
ref: 2002, Toshiyuki Konō, Christoph Paulus, Harry Rajak, Selected legal issues of e-commerce, page 12:
text: […] he is aiming not so much for cyberseparatism as cyberanarchy.
ref: 2004, Helen Fay Nissenbaum, Monroe Edwin Price, Academy and the Internet, page 232:
glosses: An anarchic state or condition on computer networks.
Related terms: cyberanarchism
cyberanarchist
oxidulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Existing in the state of a protoxide; said of an oxide.
consortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kənˈsɔː(ɹ)ʃən/
Etymology: Latin consortio.
Senses: examples: text: study thou conversation, and be critical in thy consortion.
ref: 1716, Sir Thomas Browne, Christian Morals:
text: A combination of the northern states on a basis favourable to their eventual freedom and consortion
ref: 1803, W. Taylor, Annual Review:
glosses: joining; association, or companionship
horologer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horologers
Etymology: From Middle English orloger, from Middle French orlogier; equivalent to horology + -er.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of horologist, a person skilled in horology, a maker or maintainer of timekeeping devices.
synonyms: word: horologist
extra: a person skilled in horology, a maker or maintainer of timekeeping devices
horologers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horologer
masturbater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masturbaters
Etymology: From masturbate + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of masturbator.
masturbaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masturbater
metabranchial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meta- + branchial.
Senses: examples: text: metabranchial lobe
text: metabranchial maargin
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the lobe of the carapace of crabs covering the posterior branchiae.
healthward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more healthward
form: most healthward
Etymology: From health + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Towards a healthy state.
healthward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more healthward
form: most healthward
Etymology: From health + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Towards a healthy state.
eternals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eternal
perpetuals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perpetual
big government
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Big Government
Senses: examples: text: Because he is liberal, temperate and articulate, and because he freely recognizes past Big Business abuses, Wendell L. Willkie, president of huge Commonwealth & Southern Corp., is in a class by himself as a persuasive businessman-critic of the New Deal. […] "Today it is not Big Business that we have to fear," concluded Businessman Wilkie. "It is Big Government."
ref: 1940 March 18, “Life on the Newsfronts of the World: Big Government”, in Life, retrieved 13 Dec 2011, page 26:
text: Mr. Clinton inherited a Presidency that had been downsized by Watergate and the end of the cold war. […] Two years ago he declared the end of the era of big government and embarked upon a program of bite-sized policy initiatives.
ref: 1998 August 2, John M. Broder, “The Nation: Big Deal”, in New York Times, retrieved 13 Dec 2011:
text: Big Government is never popular in theory, but the disaster aid, school lunches and prescription drugs that make up Big Government have become wildly popular in practice.
ref: 2009 May 7, Michael Grunwald, “One Year Ago: The Republicans in Distress”, in Time:
text: This is why the Conservative programme for government is founded on such a radical revolt against the statist approach of the Big Government that always knows best.
ref: 2010 April 17, David Cameron, “This is a radical revolt against the statist approach of Big Government”, in The Guardian:
text: "There is no space for people to have a real discussion about the Fed or drone strikes abroad or the pharmaceutical industry, let alone how our freedoms are being infringed upon by big government," he said.
ref: 2013 August 16, Adam Gabbatt, quoting Ron Paul, “The Ron Paul Channel: libertarianism 'unfiltered and uninterrupted'”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Governance that consists of large-scale programs, numerous departments and employees, and that entails substantial spending, especially liberal or left-wing governance which emphasizes social entitlements and regulation, and that is considered intrusive by some citizens, especially by conservatives or right-wingers
Related terms: big business
big labor
big pharma
big society
nebulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nebulations
Senses: glosses: The condition of being nebulated.
glosses: A clouded or ill-defined mark of colour.
nebulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nebulation
bootdisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bootdisks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of boot disk.
bootdisks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bootdisk
Big Government
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of big government.
Angaataha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language of Papua New Guinea.
mud army
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The volunteer helpers assisting the victims of the 2010/2011 floods in South East Queensland.
basales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basalis
variegator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: variegators
Senses: glosses: One who or that which variegates.
glosses: A machine that swirls several ice cream flavors into a single ice cream.
fumulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fumuli
Etymology: Blend of fume + cumulus
Senses: glosses: A very thin cloud resembling a veil, especially one formed of water droplets from a rising plume (from a cooling tower etc)
fumuli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fumulus
Abar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Bantoid language spoken in Cameroon.
remanifestation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remanifestations
Etymology: From re- + manifestation.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent manifestation.
gracility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gracilities
Etymology: From gracile + -ity.
Senses: examples: Stephen L. Whittington, David M. Reed (eds.) (2006), Bones of the Maya: Studies of Ancient Skeletons, Tuscaloosa, Ala: University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 69: “Gracility is usually considered a female characteristic and contrasts strikingly here with the robusticity and large size of the mandible.”
topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: The property or condition of being gracile.
Synonyms: slenderness
thinness
rugosas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rugosa
have one's eye on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has one's eye on
form: having one's eye on
form: had one's eye on
form: had one's eye on
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see have, one's, eye, on.
examples: text: I have my eye on you, so you'd better not cause any trouble.
glosses: To watch.
examples: text: She now wants to be a Paris MP. But Fillon wants the same Paris seat when he steps down, after next year's election. Both have their eye on the main prize: running for Paris mayor in 2014.
ref: 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian:
glosses: To seek, to pursue.
Synonyms: have designs on
junior minister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: junior ministers
Senses: examples: text: The junior minister Nadine Morano, who recently said Dati had been served a political career "on a golden platter", suggested she go back to her roots and run in rural Burgundy, where she grew up in a poor family of 11 children.
ref: 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian:
text: One junior minister failed to see why main lines could not simply be turned into motorways and be done with it.
ref: 2024 January 10, Howard Johnston, “Launched for enthusiasts - now it's for everyone”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 28:
topics: government
politics
hypernyms: word: person
glosses: a member of a legislative body who holds a position in government below cabinet level, i.e. reporting to the head of a department, not the prime minister or head of government
Newtonmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Newtonmases
Etymology: From Newton + -mas, after Isaac Newton.
Senses: examples: text: At Christmas, 1890, or Newtonmas, 248, for the first time, the members of the Newtonkai, or Newton Association, met in the Physical Laboratory of the Imperial University, to hear each other talk, to distribute appropriate gifts, and to lengthen out the small hours with laughter and good cheer.
ref: 1892 September 8, “"A New Sect of Hero Worshippers."”, in Nature, volume 46, number 1193, →ISSN, page 459:
text: Two of my friends (both Jewish) take 25 December as the holiday Newtonmas, in celebration of the birth of Sir Isaac Newton.
ref: 1992 December 8, Nomi Pearlman, “Re: All these x-mas filks are making”, in alt.music.filk (Usenet), message-ID <104320@bu.edu>:
text: So why not put some sense into your festivities and celebrate Newtonmas this year?
ref: 2000 December 26, Lloyd Miller, quoting Alexander Chislenko, “Merry Newtonmas!”, in talk.atheism (Usenet), message-ID <n%626.283$AL.3706@nntp.msen.com>:
text: On the first day of Newtonmas, Sir Isaac gave to me / The acceleration of gravity[…]
ref: 2007, “Newtonmas Carols”, in Mansfield Public Schools, archived from the original on 27 Dec 2010:
text: Sir Isaac Newton was born on December 25, 1642 (old style), so it seems natural to take advantage of that complete coincidence and celebrate his life and works as Newtonmas.
ref: 2007 December 22, Matt Blum, “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Newtonmas”, in Wired, →ISSN:
text: Merry Newtonmas, everyone!
ref: 2009 December 14, “The Maternal Congruence” (1:38 from the start), in The Big Bang Theory, season 3, episode 11, spoken by Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki), CBS:
text: Donalee Tauber has obviously never heard of Hanukkah, Ramadan, Diwali, New Year's Day, Newtonmas, Solstice, Kwanzaa or Yule.
ref: 2010 December 27, Tom Ingram, “Have Your Say”, in Winnipeg Free Press, →ISSN, page A16:
text: Richard Dawkins mentioned the idea of calling it Newtonmas, because Isaac Newton was also born–I say also, I mean Newton actually was–born on the 25th of December.
ref: 2011 December 9, James Kettle, “Brian Cox and Robin Ince: two wise men wishing you a merry XXmas”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: December 25, Isaac Newton's birthday (in the Julian calendar).
examples: text: Olivia Judson, an evolutionary biologist, recommends celebrate Newtonmas on December 25th and ten extra days representing the interval between Newton's birth dates on the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
ref: 2008 December 23, Olivia Judson, “The 10 Days of Newton”, in The New York Times:
glosses: December 25 through January 4, Isaac Newton's birthday (in the Gregorian calendar).
bite in the arse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bites in the arse
form: biting in the arse
form: bit in the arse
form: bitten in the arse
form: bite in the ass
Senses: examples: text: After the kitten had died, Robins sent a text message to Knutton saying: "Remember the saying: 'What goes around comes around?' It has started already to bite you in the arse. The cat? Karma."
ref: 2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Synonym of come back to bite.
synonyms: word: come back to bite
Bates numbering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bates numberings
Senses: glosses: A sequence of Bates numbers in a particular set of documents.
glosses: The action of creating or assigning such a sequence for identification.
Bates numbering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Bates number
Bates numberings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bates numbering
Bates numbered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Bates number
MORB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: môb
ipa: /mɔːb/
enpr: môrb
ipa: /mɔɹb/
Forms: form: MORBs
Senses: examples: text: The mid-ocean ridges are where new crust is added to the earth, so MORB is the basic building material of our world.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 75:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Acronym of mid-ocean ridge basalt.