cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
humourist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humourists
Etymology: From humour + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Humorologists study humour and humourists, smile therapists believe in the therapeutic value of cheer and humoropathists promote a 'cacchination (guffawing) cure' for serious illness ('Vitamin C and Laurel and Hardy').
ref: 2002 January 12, “What's the word?”, in The Guardian:
text: I only met the late and much-missed humourist once, but he had an impact on my life that hasn't been mentioned in the other fond tributes.
ref: 2007 October 30, Ali Catterall, “Alan Coren launched my criminal career”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative spelling of humorist.
Dylan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪlən/
rhymes: -ɪlən
homophone: Dillon
Etymology: From Welsh mythology; possibly from Celtic for "son of the sea" or "born from the ocean." Unrelated to the name Dillon, although the homophony may result in the two being considered variant spellings of the same name.
Senses: examples: text: In 1999 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, 18-year-old Eric Harris and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold killed 12 of their fellow students and a teacher before taking their own lives in the school library.
ref: 2012 April 3, Laura Smith-Spark, “Are mass killings on the increase? Criminologist says no”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from Welsh.
examples: text: The brand’s Bud Light customers abandoned the beer after it partnered with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney and botched its response to the controversy.
ref: 2023 November 15, Ramishah Maruf, “Anheuser-Busch’s US marketing chief is stepping down as Bud Light sales sink”, in CNN Business:
glosses: A female given name.
examples: text: Mr. Handke is the Bob Dylan of genocide apologists.
ref: 2019 October 15, Aleksandar Hemon, “‘The Bob Dylan of Genocide Apologists’”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2020:
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: word: Dylanesque
word: Dylanologist
word: Dylanology
Related terms: Dylann
isocline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isoclines
Etymology: From iso- + -cline (“slope”).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A tightly folded syncline or anticline in which the two sides are almost parallel.
topics: geography
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A line, curve or function on a graph or map linking points with the same slope or gradient.
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A line on a map linking places with the same magnetic dip; an isoclinic line.
Derived terms: isoclinal
isoclinic
self-taught
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-taught
form: most self-taught
Etymology: From self- + taught.
Senses: examples: text: It's this understanding of Quality as revealed by stuckness which so often makes self-taught mechanics so superior to institute-trained men who have learned how to handle everything except a new situation.
ref: 1974, Robert M[aynard] Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow & Company, →ISBN:
glosses: Educated or trained by oneself.
Related terms: autodidact
self-educated
imperial pints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imperial pint
streptavidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: streptavidins
Etymology: From Streptomyces avidinii + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tetrameric protein purified from Streptomyces avidinii that binds very tightly to the vitamin biotin
Related terms: streptavidinate
streptavidinated
microarray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microarrays
Etymology: From micro- + array.
Senses: glosses: Any of several devices, containing a two-dimensional array of small quantities of biological material, used for various types of assay; the assay itself
Derived terms: antibody microarray
cell microarray
chemical compound microarray
DNA microarray
intermicroarray
microarrayed
microarrayer
oligomicroarray
protein microarray
tissue microarray
Related terms: glycoarray
geoengineering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geo- + engineering.
Senses: examples: text: “You could say it's one of the first geoengineering projects ever,” says [Carlo] Ratti of the patchwork of land-spattered lagoon that human ingenuity formed into a city, as we settle on the terrace of the Hotel Monaco with an espresso. “This wasn't meant for human living.”
ref: 2025 April 26, Caroline Roux, “The age of adaption”, in FT Weekend:
topics: business
engineering
mining
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The subfield of engineering concerned with designing and constructing tunnels, mines, and other human-designed geologic structures within and on earth.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: planetary engineering, terraforming
text: Although the panel does not support even pilot programs, it calls geoengineering “technically feasible in terms of cooling effects and costs” and says it has “the potential to affect greenhouse warming on a substantial scale.”
ref: 1991 May 20, Sharon Begley, “On the Wings of Icarus”, in Newsweek, page 42:
text: Although he views large-scale geoengineering as an act of profound hubris[…]he thinks it may be necessary as an emergency measure, much like kidney dialysis is necessary to a person whose health is failing.
ref: 2007 November 1, Jeff Goodell, “James Lovelock, the Prophet”, in Rolling Stone:
text: A scientist gets into geoengineering, they're not a scientist anymore, they're a politician. Get hate mail, rocks through window, no one takes their real work seriously, all that.
ref: 2020, Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future, Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN:
glosses: The artificial manipulation of the environments of a planet, especially Earth, especially as a means of counteracting global warming.
Related terms: Anthropocene
sozology
histone deacetylase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: histone deacetylases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of enzymes that remove acetyl groups from lysine amino acids in proteins, especially the histone proteins of the nucleus
deacetylase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deacetylases
Etymology: From de- + acetyl + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several classes of enzyme that remove acetyl groups from proteins
Derived terms: histone deacetylase
Maliakos Gulf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A gulf in Greece adjacent to Thermopylae or the so called "hot gates". This was the site where the 300 Spartans built a massive wall to block alternate route to Sparta, giving the Persians no choice but to choose Thermopylae as the only path.
surprize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surprizes
Senses: examples: text: Ferdinand not yet recovered from the painful surprize
ref: 1792, Ann Ward Radcliffe, A Sicilian Romance, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2005:
text: Mrs. Jennings received the refusal with some surprize, and repeated her invitation immediately.
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter III, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 36:
text: Yet this man calls upon the Cephalonians to complain of my rule; and he expresses his surprize that they have not done so before.
ref: 1813, William Francis Patrick Napier, quoting Charle Napier, The Life and Opinions of General Sir Charles James Napier, G.C.B., Cambridge Univ. Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 431:
glosses: Archaic spelling of surprise.
surprize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: surprizes
form: surprizing
form: surprized
form: surprized
Senses: examples: text: The Pettyfogger now likewiſe departed, and then Jones deſired the Favour of Mrs. Whitefield’s Company to drink Tea with him; but ſhe refuſed, and with a Manner ſo different from that with which ſhe had received him at Dinner, that it a little ſurprized him.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, “Jones arrives at Gloucester, and goes to the Bell; […]”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VII, page 206:
text: Surprized at the bold independence of these words, delivered with uncommon energy, the heart of Osbert beat quick
ref: 1789, Ann Ward Radcliffe, The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne, HTML edition:
text: Will he be surprized that such a diversity of sentiment rendered … And will he be surprized, that mutual concessions … need we be surprized tat the stream …
ref: 1813, John Elihu Hall, The American Law Journal, Volume 4, Digitized edition (Law), WP Farrand and Co., published 2010, page 326:
text: Guard well against surprize; to be surprized is inexcusable in a general, if it happens from his neglect of proper posts: if his troops are surprized in good posts they must be in a dreadful state, which can hardly be the fault of any one but the general.
ref: 1813, William Francis Patrick Napier, quoting Charles Napier, The Life and Opinions of General Sir Charles James Napier, G.C.B., Cambridge Univ. Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 236:
text: “How well your brother dances!” was an artless exclamation of Catherine’s towards the close of their conversation, which at once surprized and amused her companion.
ref: 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter X, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC, page 159:
glosses: Archaic spelling of surprise.
metatherian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more metatherian
form: most metatherian
Etymology: Metatheria + -an
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Belonging or pertaining to the infraclass Metatheria of marsupials.
metatherian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metatherians
Etymology: Metatheria + -an
Senses: examples: text: The pouched metatherians, the progenitors of marsupials, used to be common all over North America.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 102:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A member of the infraclass Metatheria.
tidally locked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Kruban is a tidally-locked Venusian hothouse, its surface perpetually obscured by clouds of sulfur and carbon dioxides.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Kruban:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Having undergone tidal locking.
Related terms: tidal locking
tidal locking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The locking of the rotation of a satellite (moon or planet) to its orbit, such that one side always faces the body around which it is orbiting.
Derived terms: tidally locked
Related terms: synchronous rotation
dayside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪ(ˌ)saɪd/
Forms: form: daysides
Etymology: From day + side.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The side of a planet or other body that faces towards the sun or star around which it orbits
nightside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nightsides
Etymology: From night + side.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: darkside
antonyms: dayside
glosses: The side of a planet or other body that faces away from the sun or star around which it orbits.
ligase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪɡeɪz/
ipa: /ˈlaɪɡeɪz/
Forms: form: ligases
Etymology: From lig- + -ase.
Senses: examples: text: The glue is an enzyme called ligase, which stitches together loose sentences of DNA whenever it comes across them.
ref: 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 244:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the binding of two molecules; synthetase.
Derived terms: DNA ligase
amidoligase
cycloligase
ubiquitin ligase
Related terms: ligate
shopman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shopmen
Etymology: From shop + -man.
Senses: glosses: The proprietor, manager, or operator of a small store.
Related terms: shopkeeper
retailer
sensi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛnsiː/
Forms: form: sensie
form: sensy
Senses: examples: text: In Westmoreland, where the sensi come from / Me put it in a crocus barrel, upon the mini van
ref: 1985, Wayne Smith, “Under Me Sleng Teng”:
text: [AK The Savior]: Smoking sensi, high sensei in your membrane.
ref: 2013, “Herb Shuttles”, in Indigoism, performed by Underachievers:
text: Yeah, man used to move that white, yeah, we be them old school dealers. She’s lighting up some sensis, he’s lighting up amnesias.
ref: 2015, “Man Don’t Care”, in Integrity, performed by Jme and Giggs:
text: That’s why me haffi lead and set the trend fi dem. Dash ‘way the coke dem and go sensi dem.
ref: 2018, “Help The Weak”performed by Capleton and Sizzla:
glosses: Clipping of sensimilla.
monocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more monocratic
form: most monocratic
Etymology: From mono- + -cratic, equivalent to monocrat + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of autocratic.
synonyms: word: autocratic
Derived terms: monocratically
Related terms: monocracy
monocrat
merchantmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merchantman
merchantman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merchantmen
Etymology: From merchant + -man.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: merchant (precisely hypernymous), trader
coordinate_terms: merchantwoman
merchantess
glosses: A male merchant (person engaged in trade).
glosses: Synonym of merchant ship.
synonyms: word: merchant ship
Derived terms: armed merchantman
ear wax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of earwax.
ear-wax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of earwax.
greenwax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greenwaxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of green wax.
sealing-wax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sealing-waxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sealing wax.
ergodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɜɹˈɡɑdɪk/
ipa: /ɜɹˈɡoʊdɪk/
Forms: form: more ergodic
form: most ergodic
Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary ergo- + -ode (+ -ic). The etymological origin is disputed: ἔργον (érgon) + ὁδός (hodós, “way”) versus ἔργον (érgon) + εἶδος (eîdos, “image”).
Senses: examples: text: “The real world is not ergodic,” he says. “If I jump out of the window, that's it–it's not, like, a mistake I will learn from.”
ref: 2020, Brian Christian, quoting Jan Leike, “Conclusion”, in The Alignment Problem, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, →ISBN:
topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to certain systems that, given enough time, will eventually return to a previously experienced state.
topics: engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
statistics
glosses: Of or relating to a process in which every sequence or sample of sufficient size is equally representative of the whole.
examples: text: Therefore this chapter moves into two directions, cybertextually expanding (and reorganizing) the field of architextuality, and specifying the ergodic variety within it.
ref: 2012, Markku Eskelinen, Cybertext Poetics:
topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
information-science
literature
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a literary work that requires nontrivial effort on the reader's part to traverse.
Derived terms: ergodically
ergodic hypothesis
ergodicity
ergodic theory
microergodic
nonergodic
izhitsa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈiʒɪt͡sə/
Forms: form: izhitsas
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian и́жица (ížica).
Senses: glosses: The obsolete Cyrillic letter Ѵ, ѵ, formerly used in Russian to represent upsilon in borrowed words.
coming about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of come about
came about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of come about
guana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guanas
Etymology: By aphesis.
Senses: glosses: An iguana.
Derived terms: goanna
fulgurite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fulgurites
Etymology: From Latin fulgur + -ite.
Senses: synonyms: fossilized lightning
glosses: Glass formed by a lightning strike melting sand or other material.
Cheetos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cheeto
Etymology: A brand name, presumably from cheese, with an ending matching other brands of Frito-Lay Inc. (Doritos, Fritos, Tostitos), from Spanish frito (“fried”).
Senses: glosses: A snack made from pieces of crunchy, cheese-flavored extruded cornmeal, originally from the US, now distributed globally.
wikipedia: Frito-Lay Inc.
Derived terms: Cheetolini
eliding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of elide
illywhacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪliwakə/
Forms: form: illywhackers
form: illywacker
Etymology: Uncertain. Suggested by lexicographer Sidney Baker to derive from illy (variant of eeler, from pig Latin eeler-spee for spieler) + whacker. The verb form whack the illy is a back-formation from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: ‘What's an illywhacker?’ said Charles. ‘Spieler,’ explained Leah, who was not used to children.
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 228:
glosses: A small-time confidence trickster or seller of trinkets.
Derived terms: whack the illy
whack the illy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whacks the illy
form: whacking the illy
form: whacked the illy
form: whacked the illy
Etymology: Presumed (but not proven) to be a back-formation from illywhacker.
Senses: glosses: To carry on small-time confidence tricks, i.e. the activity of an illywhacker.
bottomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottomers
Etymology: From bottom + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who makes the seat part of a chair.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A person employed to attend to the bottom of the shaft.
motherese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mother + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: With its slow and exaggerated intonations, motherese speeds language learning by providing input that is easier for infants to process.
ref: 2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 13, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Baby talk.
drear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹɪə/
ipa: /dɹɪɚ/
ipa: /dɹɪɹ/
ipa: /dɹiə/
ipa: /dɹiːɹ/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /dɹɛː/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: drearer
form: drearest
Etymology: Shortening of dreary.
Senses: examples: text: Earth raised up her head
From the darkness dread and drear,
ref: 1794, William Blake, Earth's Answer, lines 1-2
text: I spoke, perplexed by something in the signs
Of desolation I had seen and heard
In this drear pilgrimage to ruined shrines:
ref: 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night:
text: And over all, the dead silence of the dead, the sense of utter loneliness, and the brooding spirit of the Past! How beautiful it was, and yet how drear! We did not dare to speak aloud.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: Now dreary dawns the eastern light,
And fall of eve is drear, [...]
ref: 1922, A. E. Housman, Last Poems, XXVIII, lines 1-2:
synonyms: word: bleak
word: dreary
word: cheerless
word: comfortless
word: bleak
word: dark
word: depressing
word: desolate
word: dire
word: disconsolate
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: drear
word: drearisome
word: dreary
word: dreich
word: forlorn
word: gayless
word: gray
word: gloomsome
word: gloomy
word: grim
word: joyless
word: lack-laughter
word: lugubrious
word: melancholy
word: mirthless
word: miserable
word: no joke
word: saturnine
word: solemn
word: somber
word: sombre
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: sunless
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unhappy
word: unmerry
word: wintry
word: woeful
glosses: Dreary.
Derived terms: drearing
drearness
drearsome
drear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹɪə/
ipa: /dɹɪɚ/
ipa: /dɹɪɹ/
ipa: /dɹiə/
ipa: /dɹiːɹ/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /dɹɛː/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: drears
Etymology: Back-formation from dreary. Compare greed.
Senses: examples: text: She thankt him deare / Both for that newes he did to her impart, / And for the courteous care which he did beare / Both to her love and to her selfe in that sad dreare.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Gloom; sadness.
hell on earth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Pope Francis (2015), Laudato si', Paragraph 148: “if the limitations of the environment are compensated for in the interior of each person who feels held within a network of solidarity and belonging, ... any place can turn from being a hell on earth into the setting for a dignified life.”
glosses: A very unpleasant situation; torment, particularly when widespread.
Related terms: hell on wheels
heaven on earth
Southern Cherokee Nation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Cherokee Nation made up of those who joined the Confederates during the Civil War.
glosses: One of the Cherokee Nations recognized by the 1866 treaty.
Cradle Catholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cradle Catholics
Senses: glosses: A person who has been raised in the Catholic faith since birth (in contrast to a person who has converted to the faith). It is usually implicit that the person has not lapsed in the faith.
discrete choice analysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discrete choice analyses
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: The analysis of a model whose dependent variable is a binary (two-valued) variable.
solar telescope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solar telescopes
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A telescope designed to make observations of the sun.
Route 66
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: If you ever plan to motor west / Travel my way, take the highway that's the best / Get your kicks on Route 66
ref: 1946, Bobby Troup, “(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66”:
text: Jesus lived his life in a cheap hotel / On the edge of Route 66, yeah
ref: 1995, “Super-Charger Heaven”, performed by White Zombie:
glosses: A former United States highway that ran from Chicago to Los Angeles.
examples: text: I believe the best way to gain the full perspective of the trips is to drive Route 66 (the Capricorn Highway) and stop at the selected towns for a look
ref: 2004, James Postell, Daytrips Eastern Australia:
glosses: The Capricorn Highway in Queensland, Australia.
LIE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Long Island Expressway
Interstate 495
I-495
glosses: Initialism of Long Island Expressway (“I-495”).
castelli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of castello
the Loop
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Chicago Loop; the famous section of downtown Chicago.
BQE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the BQE
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Brooklyn–Queens Expressway: Interstate 278 in New York and New Jersey, USA.
Erie Canal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Erie Canal
Senses: glosses: The 363 mile-long canal from Lake Erie to the Hudson River.
Little Bighorn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The place near the Little Bighorn River, the site of Custer's Last Stand.
americani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of amerikani (“cotton sheeting”).
properispomenon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pɹəʊpɛɹɪˈspɒmənɒn/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek προπερισπώμενον (properispṓmenon).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: perispomenon
oxytone
paroxytone
proparoxytone
barytone
glosses: In Greek grammar, having a circumflex accent on the penultimate syllable.
raw_tags: of a word
glosses: A linguistic unit marked by a particular accentual or tonal pattern in which prominence falls just before the final syllable.
Synonyms: properispomenal
properispomenon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɹəʊpɛɹɪˈspɒmənɒn/
Forms: form: properispomenons
form: properispomena
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek προπερισπώμενον (properispṓmenon).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: perispomenon
oxytone
paroxytone
proparoxytone
barytone
glosses: A word having such an accent.
Related terms: properispome
crafts centre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crafts centres
Senses: glosses: A craft centre
craft centre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: craft centres
Senses: glosses: A place, typically having one or more workshops, an exhibition gallery and a shop, where tourists may watch local craftsmen at work and buy examples of their craft
kilometrage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilometrages
Etymology: From French kilométrage. By surface analysis, kilometre + -age.
Senses: glosses: The total distance travelled, in kilometres.
glosses: The number of kilometres travelled by a vehicle on a certain volume of fuel.
glosses: An allowance for travel expenses at a specified rate per kilometre.
Related terms: mileage
cellulitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cellulitides
form: cellulitises
Senses: glosses: An inflammation of subcutaneous or connective tissue caused by a bacterial infection
Derived terms: adenocellulitis
pseudocellulitis
Related terms: cellulite
folksinger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folksingers
form: folk singer
Etymology: From folk + singer.
Senses: glosses: A person who sings folk songs.
folksinging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folk singing
Etymology: From folk + singing.
Senses: glosses: The singing of folk songs.
folkways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folk ways
form: folk-ways
Senses: glosses: plural of folkway
follow-the-leader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: games
glosses: A children's game in which each person in a line replicates the actions of the one in front.
Synonyms: word: follow my leader
null and void
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔɪd
Senses: topics: law
glosses: invalid, cancelled, unenforceable
preliminaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preliminary
bone wax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of wax, usually beeswax with the addition of paraffin or some other agent to soften it, used to stop bleeding from bones during surgery.
Derived terms: Horsley bone wax
Horsley's bone wax
lost wax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A method of casting a sculpture in which a model of the sculpture is made from wax; the model is used to make a mould; when the mould has set, the wax is made to melt and is poured away, leaving the mould ready to be used to cast the sculpture.
Synonyms: cire perdue
lost-wax casting
lost-wax process
cire perdue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French, from cire (“wax”) and perdue (“lost”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lost wax.
synonyms: word: lost wax
waxbill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwæksˌbɪl/
Forms: form: waxbills
Etymology: From wax + bill.
Senses: glosses: Any member of species of genera Estrilda, Coccopygia, Brunhilda, Glaucestrilda, Amandava, Granatina, and Uraeginthus of family Estrildidae of passerine birds.
Derived terms: Anambra waxbill
Arabian waxbill
black-cheeked waxbill
black-crowned waxbill
black-headed waxbill
black-lored waxbill
black-rumped waxbill
black-tailed waxbill
Cinderella waxbill
common waxbill
crimson-rumped waxbill
fawn-breasted waxbill
gray waxbill
grey waxbill
lavender waxbill
orange-cheeked waxbill
red-rumped waxbill
red waxbill
rosy-rumped waxbill
swee waxbill
violet-eared waxbill
yellow-bellied waxbill
zebra waxbill
Related terms: wax-billed
wax-colour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wax-color
Senses: glosses: The yellowish colour of wax.
Derived terms: wax-colored
wax-coloured
wax end
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wax ends
form: wax-end
Senses: glosses: Synonym of waxed end.
synonyms: word: waxed end
Derived terms: wax-ended
waxed end
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waxed ends
form: wax end
form: wax-end
Senses: examples: text: Simeon took a rough waxed-end, and placing it around his finger proceeded to attach a bristle to it. "You see," said Simeon, "it is not such a very difficult thing to do. You have only to pay attention."
ref: 1892, Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, translated by Adolphus Norraikow, Life Is Worth Living:
text: Uncle Boley worked at the seam until he had used up the thread in the leather, then took the extra waxed-end out of his mouth and put the boot aside. He took up one of the crippled shoes, turned it, examined it, as if he had come across some curiosity in the shoemaker's art.
ref: 1924, George Washington Ogden, s:The Trail Rider, Chapter 1:
text: He had a boot in his left hand, and, in his right, what cobblers call a wax end. He seemed very seriously at work on that boot.
ref: 1939, Frank Richards, The Magnet: Loder Looks for Trouble:
qualifier: shoemaking
glosses: A thread of various filaments, usually pointed with a bristle and covered with shoemaker's wax, used in sewing leather, as for making or repairing footwears.
wax-end
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wax-ends
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wax end.
wax-myrtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wax-myrtles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wax myrtle.
Mazanderani
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mazanderani
form: most Mazanderani
Etymology: From Mazandaran + -i.
Senses: glosses: Of the Iranian region and province of Mazandaran, its people, or their language.
Synonyms: Taparian
Tabarian
Mazanderani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mazanderanis
Etymology: From Mazandaran + -i.
Senses: glosses: A Mazanderani person.
Mazanderani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mazandaran + -i.
Senses: glosses: The Mazanderani language, a northwestern Iranian language closely related to Persian.
Synonyms: Mazeniki
Tabari
Taperki
Related terms: Iranian
Wiktionary’s coverage of Mazanderani terms
waxycap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waxycaps
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of waxy cap.
waxy cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waxy caps
Senses: glosses: Any agaric of the family Hygrophoraceae.
Derived terms: conic waxy cap
conic waxycap
waxy spleen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: amyloidosis of the spleen
Derived terms: diffuse waxy spleen
civically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more civically
form: most civically
Etymology: From civic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a civic manner
modi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of modus
pot-hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pot-holes
Senses: examples: text: It is designed that the body part b shall be of suitable diameter to fit reasonably close into the pot-hole, and the flange b'' is intended to rest upon the stove-top; […]
ref: 1879, Leverett T. Harper, Sioux Falls, Dakota, patent 234,683 for a Hay-Burner Attachment for Stoves, published in 1880 in the Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the United States Patent Office, page 827
text: In an attachment for a stove which has in its top a double pot-hole having straight sides and semicircular ends, said top having a depressed lid supporting shoulder surrounding said double pot-hole; […]
ref: 1918 May 16, Archie O. Strickland, of Winfield, Kansas, patent 1,298,819 for a Fuel-Magazine, serial number 234,999, published in 1919 in the Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
text: When different pots are to be used on one stove the most effective solution is to have the front pot-hole as large as the most commonly-used large pot, […]
ref: 1987, Bill Stewart, Improved wood, waste and charcoal burning stoves, page 61:
glosses: Alternative form of pothole.
injudiciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˌɪnd͡ʒʊˈdɪʃəslɪ/
Forms: form: more injudiciously
form: most injudiciously
Etymology: From injudicious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an injudicious manner.
stupe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stjuːp/
ipa: /stuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: stupes
Etymology: Shortening of stupid.
Senses: examples: text: He thinks Santa lives at the South Pole? What a stupe!
text: George put the phone back on the hook in a hurry, his face burning.
She doesn't know it's you, stupe. There's six parties on the line!
ref: 1984, Stephen King, Gramma:
glosses: A stupid person or (rarely) thing.
stupe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stjuːp/
ipa: /stuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: stupes
Etymology: From Middle English, from Latin stūpa, variant of stuppa.
Senses: examples: text: And get your plasters, and your warm stupes ready.
ref: 1623, John Fletcher, The Lover's Progress:
glosses: A hot, wet medicated cloth or sponge applied externally.
stupe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stjuːp/
ipa: /stuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: stupes
form: stuping
form: stuped
form: stuped
Etymology: From Middle English, from Latin stūpa, variant of stuppa.
Senses: examples: text: stupe it at least thrice a Day
ref: 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To foment with such a cloth or sponge.
sende
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of send.
A road
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A roads
form: A-road
Senses: coordinate_terms: B road
glosses: Any of many major roads in the United Kingdom, mostly multi-lane dual carriageways between cities.
B road
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: B roads
Etymology: The term "B road", or "B-Road", in British road classification refers to secondary roads, typically narrower and less important than A-roads (primary roads) but more significant than minor roads (C-roads or unclassified roads).
Prefix "B-" [which likely stands for "British" or "Branch" in the context of roads. These roads were originally classified as secondary roads in the UK road network] + "Road".
Senses: coordinate_terms: A road
glosses: Any of many secondary roads in Britain, typically branching off of A roads, leading to C roads, and travelling to smaller towns and villages.
Great North Road
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Upon the very same night when Nancy, having lulled Mr. Sikes to sleep, hurried on her self-imposed mission to Rose Maylie, there advanced towards London by the Great North Road two persons, upon whom it is expedient that this history should bestow some attention.
ref: 1850, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist:
glosses: The A1 (partially the A1(M)) road from London to Edinburgh
wikipedia: A1000 road
White Castle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: 2006 April 9, Ryan Nerz (interviewee), Steve Paulson (interviewer), “Techno Cuisine”, To the Best of Our Knowledge, Wisconsin Public Radio
It was a qualifier for Krystal Burgers. Krystal burgers are a little bit like White Castles, the prototypical “Slyder” as they’re known.
text: Indeed it turned out the developer had illegally modeled all of Tuscanyville’s homes on Olive Garden, Pizzeria Uno’s, and White Castle outlets.
ref: 2008 January 19, Mo Rocca, “Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!”, in National Public Radio:
glosses: The first fast-food hamburger chain and one of the oldest American fast-food restaurant chains, known for its Slyder, a small square burger.
seed corn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Seed that is saved from one year's harvest for the subsequent year's planting, rather than being used to make flour etc.
seed corn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seed corns
Senses: glosses: A type of corn (callus) composed of multiple small lesions, typically caused by uneven pressure on the foot while walking.
luminous intensity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luminous intensities
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A measure of the power emitted by a source of light; equal to the flux density per solid angle.
Related terms: light intensity
flux density
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flux densities
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A measure of rate of flow of a fluid, particles or energy per unit area.
fresh out of
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: That boy was one of the new draft, fresh out of boot camp, and yet it was his duty to pass messages upon which the fate of a battle might depend.
ref: 1955, C.S. Forester, The Good Shepherd, page 43:
text: Students fresh out of college have highly specialized skills in newer technologies.
ref: 1998, Gordon W. Fuller, Getting the Most Out of Your Consultant, page 191:
text: 2007, Armistead Maupin, Mad, Stark Mad at SmithsonianMagazine.com
Fresh out of the South and a tour of duty in Vietnam, I was seriously conservative and frightened to death of almost everything...
glosses: Of someone who has recently left one stage of life to begin another.
examples: text: So if it was help Michael wanted, well, whoops, he was fresh out of luck.
ref: 2003, James St. James, Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland, page 208:
text: ...Judy the receptionist had looked at me like I was a mental case trick-or-treater and she was fresh out of candy.
ref: 2004, Al Sorci, Fishing the Muse, page 167:
text: Fear fun, fear love / Fresh out of fucks forever
ref: 2018, Jack Antonoff, Lana Del Rey, “Venice Bitch”, in Norman Fucking Rockwell!, performed by Lana Del Rey:
hypernyms: out
;
all out
glosses: Having completely exhausted one's supply of (a commodity); especially, having just run out recently.
incognitum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incognita
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin incognitum (“unknown”). Coined by William Hunter.
Senses: examples: text: When, as president, he dispatched Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to the Northwest, Jefferson hoped that they would come upon live incognita roaming its forests.
ref: 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 2, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:
glosses: An American mammoth or mastodon, especially when presumed extant.
mochi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmoʊtʃi/
ipa: /ˈmɒtʃi/
Forms: form: mochis
form: mochi
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 餅(もち) (mochi).
Senses: examples: text: Many of Japan's most popular confections are dusted with a light coating of sweetened kinako. These confections usually consist of a grain such as mochi (pounded glutinous rice) […]
ref: 2013, William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi, History of Tofu and Tofu Products (965 CE to 2013), Soyinfo Center, →ISBN, page 1146:
text: And when it comes to mochi, the Japanese rice dough, much of its appeal can be attributed to a glorious bounce or a gelatinous squish or a comforting kind of gloop.
ref: 2016 June 27, Tejal Rao, “Making Mochi, a Japanese Treat That’s All About Texture”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A small Japanese rice cake made from glutinous rice.
Derived terms: butter mochi
Related terms: daifuku
wagashi
GLONASS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian ГЛОНАСС (GLONASS).
Senses: topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: Beidou
Galileo
GPS
glosses: Acronym of Global Navigation Satellite System, a system of navigational satellites operated by the Russian government.
Dido
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪdəʊ/
rhymes: -aɪdəʊ
homophone: dydoe
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Founder and first Queen of Carthage.
Derived terms: Didonian
Didoan
palynologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palynologists
Etymology: From palynology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies palynology (pollen, spores, and other particulate organic matter).
Derived terms: paleopalynologist
blaireau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blaireaus
form: braireau
form: brairo
Etymology: French blaireau
Senses: glosses: Synonym of American badger
synonyms: word: American badger
chow down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chows down
form: chowing down
form: chowed down
form: chowed down
Senses: examples: text: We're all famished; it's time to chow down.
glosses: To eat, especially to eat vigorously.
Synonyms: dig in
eat up
fall to
eat up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eats up
form: eating up
form: ate up
form: eaten up
Senses: examples: text: He was so hungry that he ate up everything on his plate.
text: Dinner is served. Eat up!
glosses: To consume completely.
examples: text: His anger has been eating him up.
glosses: To cause (someone) to obsess; to figuratively consume (someone).
examples: text: His behavior has eaten up all the goodwill we felt towards him.
text: The powerful car ate up the miles.
ref: 1934, Frank Richards, The Magnet: The Mystery of the Vaults:
glosses: To subtract, use up.
examples: text: She ate up everything that her image consultant said.
glosses: To accept or believe entirely, immediately, and without questioning.
examples: text: They eat up every book he puts out.
text: Onstage at the fund-raiser beside Mr. Obama and Jimmy Kimmel, Mr. Biden laughed along, cracked a joke or two, and slammed the Supreme Court. The audience ate it up.
ref: 2024 July 11, Theodore Schleifer, Jacob Bernstein, Reid J. Epstein, “How Biden Lost George Clooney and Hollywood”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To acclaim or praise (someone or something).
examples: text: You're so cute, I could just eat you up!
glosses: To find something to be very cute.
raw_tags: of children or pets
examples: text: We ate up the road to Pennsylvania.
text: You're gonna have to eat up the whole way there.
glosses: To go quickly on a route.
examples: text: One fan shared a snippet from the music video wherein Jungkook and Han So-hee are drowning in water. Despite the catastrophic situation, the lovers are squabbling with each other. The fan commented: “The laundromat cause they ate that up”.
ref: 2023 July 14, Anwaya Mane, ““THEY ATE THAT UP”: BTS’ Jungkook’s fans lavish praise on Bangtan’s maknae and Han So-hee’s crackling chemistry in SEVEN MV”, in Sportskeeda:
glosses: To be very good at; to succeed at; to smash. (Compare eat and leave no crumbs.)
examples: text: Girl, you ate him up!
glosses: To completely dominate someone else, especially with a comeback or clapback.
Related terms: chow down
eat something up with a spoon
maniacal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈnaɪək(ə)l/
rhymes: -aɪəkəl
Forms: form: more maniacal
form: most maniacal
Etymology: From maniac + -al.
Senses: examples: text: In other cases of moral alienation there will be found to have been more or less congenital moral defect, with maniacal exacerbations of positive moral insanity occurring perhaps at puberty, perhaps at the menstrual periods, perhaps after severe disappointment.
ref: 1867, Henry Maudsley, The Physiology and Pathology of the Mind, New York: D. Appleton & Company, page 318:
text: He suddenly exploded into about three seconds of maniacal laughter and stopped again.
ref: 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 155:
glosses: Like a maniac; insane; frenzied.
Derived terms: maniacality
maniacally
metromaniacal
monomaniacal
unmaniacal
manageability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæ.nɪ.dʒəˈbɪ.lɪ.ti/
rhymes: -ɪlɪti
Forms: form: manageabilities
Etymology: From manage + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being manageable.
Derived terms: unmanageability
muteness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mutenesses
form: mutenesse
Etymology: From mute + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Jamike came with a certain muteness, as if something had silenced him.
ref: 2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 498:
glosses: The characteristic of being mute.
Synonyms: dumbness
Related terms: deaf-muteness
mustiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mustinesses
Etymology: From musty + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But during those two years for some reason or other the house had fallen into premature and rapid decay. With a very few months an air of mustiness began to hang over the once palatial residence of the rich foreign financier.
ref: 1933, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], chapter I, in The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published 1934, →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: The characteristic of being musty.
muskiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muskinesses
Etymology: From musky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being musky.
muddiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muddinesses
Etymology: From muddy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being muddy.
mugginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From muggy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: They found that their subjects started overheating dangerously at much lower “wet-bulb” temperatures—a measure that accounts for both heat and mugginess—than what they had expected based on previous theoretical estimates by climate scientists.
ref: 2022 June 13, Raymond Zhong, “How Extreme Heat Kills, Sickens, Strains and Ages Us”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The characteristic of being muggy.
mulishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mulish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being mulish.
multifariousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multifariousnesses
Etymology: From multifarious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being multifarious.
mushiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mushy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I chose it by default: The mushiness seemed less offensive than the near unchewability of the other three. All the cooked meat was overcooked, making judgments difficult if not impossible. The veal chops should have been trimmed of fat. Excess fat put off most tasters. Some tasters got end pieces of the scaloppine and were unhappier than tasters with thicker middle cuts. My Provimi scaloppine was so overcooked it tasted like shredded cardboard.
ref: 1979, New York Magazine, page 68:
glosses: The characteristic of being mushy.