cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
militarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪl.ɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌmɪl.ɪˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more militarian
form: most militarian
Etymology: From military + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Naturally our talk at first was about the Scouts Movement which he [Baden-Powell] was anxious to disassociate from everything militarian.
ref: 1923, Coulson Kernahan, Celebrities - Little Stories about Famous Folk, page 230:
text: The employers used the authoritarian traditions in a highly selective way, adopting the authoritarian practices of militarian rule slightly modified
ref: 1987, Joachim E. Bergmann with Shigeyoshi Tokunaga, Economic and social aspects of industrial relations, page 46:
text: Anthony Cordesman is a militarian analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC
ref: 2007 May 16, “How America's 'Czars' Fare in Their Work”, in NPR:
glosses: of or pertaining to the military
militarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪl.ɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌmɪl.ɪˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: militarians
Etymology: From military + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: For militarians, he gives the lowdown on cruise missiles and submarines. For utilitarians, there are explanations of how refrigerators and air-conditioners work
ref: 2001 November 15, “IT TAKES A BRAIN TO EXPLAIN”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
text: No maverick, Gibson said he just wanted to say hello and payback the militarians for their service to their country.
ref: 2001 October 2, “For Sept. 11, the hymn sung round the world”, in Philadelphia Inquirer:
text: Me, I've spent my whole life studying native militarians. They are an interesting people, clad in colorful native dress and participating in bizarre social customs.
ref: 2005, Jacey Eckhart, The Homefront Club: The Hardheaded Woman's Guide to Raising a Military Family, page 35:
text: And one of the hardest things I have ever seen actually was to be there during Batsina (ph) in 2005 when he sent police and youth militarians through the townships to bulldoze people's houses.
ref: 2008 July 4, “Mugabe at the African Union Summit”, in CNN International:
glosses: A person in or involved with military service.
activation analysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: activation analyses
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several similar radiochemical techniques of analysis in which a subatomic particle or gamma ray is captured by a nuclide to form a second stable nuclide which is then measured.
Derived terms: neutron activation analysis
scoucers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scoucer, alternative spelling of Scouser.
adaptive control
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of control system whose parameters may be changed dynamically in order to adapt to a changing environment.
Derived terms: adaptive-control function
sacramentum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacramenta
Etymology: From Latin sacrāmentum.
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Roman oath or vow that rendered the swearer "given to the gods", in the negative sense if he violated it.
with a vengeance
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: With which intolerable pains if the party shriek or cry out, they roar out as loud to him to confess the truth, or else he shall come down with a vengeance.
ref: 1651, Samuel Clarke, A General Martyrologie, Underhill (London), ch. 27 "The Original Progress and Practice of the Spanish Inquisition," p. 209
text: Yes, egad, they are tenacious of reputation with a vengeance, for they don't choose anybody should have a character but themselves!
ref: 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal:
text: It is said, that in the first representation of the Furies of Eschylus, the horror of the spectacle was so great, that several women miscarried; which was indeed pathos with a vengeance.
ref: 1779, “Miscellaneous Essays: From Dr. Beattie's Essay on Music and Poetry”, in Edmund Burke, editor, The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year 1778, London: Dodsley:
text: They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: From the first, she is the New Woman with a vengeance, loving nothing better than a chair, whisky, cigars and a detective story.
ref: 1966 Sep, Charles A. Berst, “Propaganda and Art in Mrs Warren's Profession”, in ELH, volume 33, number 3, page 404:
glosses: With an intense motivation; in an extreme, intense, or violent manner.
Synonyms: sense: modifying a noun postpositively
word: intense
sense: as an adverb
word: intensely
sense: as an adverb
word: with a will
sense: as an adverb
word: violently
adaptive management
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An iterative method of decision-making in the face of uncertainty that reduces uncertainty by continuous monitoring; used especially in the management of ecosystems etc.
adaptive optics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An optical system in telescopes that reduces atmospheric distortion by dynamically measuring and correcting wavefront aberrations in real time, often by using a deformable mirror.
wavefront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wavefronts
Etymology: From wave + front.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An imaginary surface passing through points of a medium oscillating in phase.
real time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːəl ˈtaɪm/
/ˈɹiːl ˈtaɪm/
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: live time
glosses: The duration required by a computer system to complete a particular task.
examples: text: "It's intelligence in real time, but you have to know where you're looking and what you're after." Government sources told The Washington Post that the program had had little discernible impact on the government's ability to prevent terrorist [attacks].
ref: 2009, John C. Conyers, Reining in the Imperial Presidency: Lessons and Recommendations Relating to the Presidency of George W. Bush, Skyhorse Publishing Inc., →ISBN, page 158:
text: Additional data services, such as album art, artist information and advertising logos, interactive user functions, as well as weather and traffic updates in real time [exist].
ref: 2016, Jerry C. Whitaker, The SBE Broadcast Engineering Handbook: A Hands-on Guide to Station Design and Maintenance, McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: The time during which an event or process occurs (and during which, without much delay, it is responded to, reacted to, etc).
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see real, time.
Derived terms: real-time
realtime
porpentine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porpentines
form: porpintine
Etymology: Alteration of porcupine.
Senses: examples: text: [T]hese wordes of his moue me as much, / As if a Goose should play the Porpintine, / And dart her plumes, thinking to pierce my brest, […]
ref: 1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
text: I could a Tale vnfold, vvhoſe lighteſt vvord / VVould harrovv vp thy ſoule, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy tvvo eyes like Starres, ſtart from their Spheres, / Thy knotty and combined locks to part, / And each particular haire to ſtand an end, / Like Quilles vpon the fretfull Porpentine: […]
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 I, scene v], page 257, column 2:
text: Odd that he [Hamlet's ghost] should have said porpentine when he meant porcupine. Slip of the tongue, no doubt, as so often happens with ghosts.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: Porcupine.
dative bond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dative bonds
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: coordinate bond
solar letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solar letters
Etymology: Calque of Arabic حَرْف شَمْسِيّ (ḥarf šamsiyy).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sun letter.
synonyms: word: sun letter
solar letters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solar letter
valley fill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The waste produced by mountain top removal mining. So named because it is typically piled high in nearby valleys.
Ark of the Covenant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: ¶ Then Solomon assembled the Elders of Israel, and all the heads of the Tribes, the chiefe of the fathers of the children of Israel vnto Ierusalem, to bring vp the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord, out of the citie of Dauid, which is Zion.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Chronicles 5:2:
text: Indiana Jones: The city of Tannis is one of the possible resting places of the lost Ark.
Eaton: The lost Ark?
Jones: Yeah, the Ark of the Covenant, the chest the Hebrews used to carry around the Ten Commandments in.
Musgrave: What do you mean the Ten Commandments? You mean the Ten Commandments?
Jones: Yes, the actual Ten Commandments, the original stone tablets that Moses brought down out of Mount Horeb and smashed if you believe in that sort of thing.
ref: 1981, 19:23 from the start, in Raiders of the Lost Ark (Action-adventure), →ISBN, →OCLC:
text: The story was true: In the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, a British expedition set out for Jerusalem to find the ark of the covenant, only to fail, spectacularly, in 1911, in an eruption of political turmoil and religious animosity.[…]
The expedition may have had an impact on British foreign policy in the region, Andrew said when we talked, and it helped spawn the world’s ongoing fascination with the ark of the covenant (and Indiana Jones).
ref: 2021 October 31, Olivia Parker, “What Happens When Everyone Is Writing the Same Book You Are?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Nov 2021, Essay:
topics: Christianity
Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The sacred container, a gold-plated wooden chest, of the two tablets of law (the Ten Commandments) given to Moses by the Hebrew God.
lunar letters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lunar letter
lunar letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lunar letters
Etymology: Calque of Arabic حَرْف قَمَرِيّ (ḥarf qamariyy).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of moon letter.
synonyms: word: moon letter
overburden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊ̯vəˈbɜːdn̩/
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈbɝdn̩/
ipa: /ˌəʉ̯vəˈbɜːdn̩/
ipa: [ˌɐʉ̯.vɐˈbɜːdn̩]
Forms: form: overburdens
form: overburdening
form: overburdened
form: overburdened
form: overburthen
Etymology: From over- + burden.
Senses: examples: text: In reality, the levels of work varied: some internationals seemed overburdened with tasks and responsibility, some seemed underburdened, and some faced apparently just the right amount of work.
ref: 2007, Kimberley Coles, Democratic Designs, →ISBN:
text: He said the increase would avoid overburdening taxpayers who have subsidised the railways by £31 billion since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic.
ref: 2023 January 11, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Division over 5.9% increase in regulated rail fares”, in RAIL, number 974, page 16:
glosses: To overload or overtax.
Synonyms: inundate
overload
surcharge
swamp
overburden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊ̯vəˌbɜːdn̩/
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚˌbɝdn̩/
ipa: /ˈəʉ̯vəˌbɜːdn̩/
ipa: [ˈɐʉ̯.vɐˌbɜːdn̩]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dən
Forms: form: overburdens
form: overburthen
Etymology: From over- + burden.
Senses: examples: text: Before much progress was made with the inverts, however, the movement became accelerated, and it was decided to lighten the load over the tunnel by removing some of the soil, […]. This reduction in the overburden arrested the movement, and the inverting and centring were completed, and the tunnel opened again to traffic on April 9, 1949.
ref: 1953 January, “Notes and News: Arley Tunnel, L.M.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 61:
text: Such rocks have been changed by baking in a terrestrial pressure-cooker. Then they have been disinterred: kilometres of overburden must have been removed.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 163:
text: Settari (2002) and Osorio et al. (1999) also suggest that the analysis domain should include overburdens, sideburdens and underburdens for better accommodation of the coupling effects of stress changes and flow.
ref: 2007, Erik Eberhardt, Doug Stead, Tom Morrison, Rock Mechanics: Meeting Society's Challenges and Demands, →ISBN:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
synonyms: mullock
glosses: The rock and subsoil that lies above a mineral deposit such as a coal seam, or any other underground feature.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A sterile stratum that lies above the stratum being investigated
mountaintop removal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of surface mining at the summit or summit ridge of a mountain, by blasting away the overburden with explosives and dumping the excess material into nearby valleys.
preëmpt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /pɹiːˈɛmpt/
Forms: form: preëmpts
form: preëmpting
form: preëmpted
form: preëmpted
form: pre-empt
form: preempt
Etymology: Back-formation from preëmption.
Senses: examples: text: He was appointed probate judge by Governor Medary in 1859, and under the territorial laws it became his duty to preëmpt the townsite of Burlington, which he did, his predecessor, W. R. Saunders, having resigned to escape that duty.
ref: 1912, Frank W. Blackmar, Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. — Volume III, Part 2, page 1329:
text: …such as Koffka’s allusion ¹ to some lectures on personality by Wertheimer, one of the leaders of the Gestalt psychology, that not all its representatives share the circumscribed view that we must preëmpt the problem of perception in all its diversified phases before we can venture forth on any other task.²
ref: 1999, Abraham Aaron Roback, The psychology of character: with a survey of personality in general, page 384:
text: Courts and arbitrators should therefore think twice before interpreting the Convention so expansively as to preëmpt domestic rules designed to provide parties to sales (and other) contracts with alternative bases of remedial relief.
ref: 2003, Joseph Lookofsky, Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law [13 Duke J. of Comp. & Int’l L. 0263]: In Dubio Pro Conventione? Some Thoughts About Opt-Outs, Computer Programs And Preëmption Under The 1980 Vienna Sales Convention (CISG), page 288:
glosses: Dated spelling of preempt.
Related terms: preëmptible
preëmption
preëmptioner
preëmptive
preëmptively
preëmptor
preëmptory
pillaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pillage
preëmpts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preëmpt
reclaiming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reclaim
preëmpting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preëmpt
preëmpted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preëmpt
slanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slander
slanders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slander
preëmptively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more preëmptively
form: most preëmptively
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of preemptively.
preëmptible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more preëmptible
form: most preëmptible
Etymology: From preëmpt + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of preemptible.
tumultuos
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of tumultuous.
porpentines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porpentine
dative bonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dative bond
preëmption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɹiːˈɛmp.ʃən/
Forms: form: preëmptions
Etymology: From Latin prae- (“before”) + ēmptiō (“buying”), from ēmptus, perfect passive participle of emō (“buy”).
Senses: examples: text: All the foreigners who had served therein were entitled to homesteads, many lands were open to preëmption by foreigners…
ref: 1906, Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe, The History of North America, page 255:
text: No person can exercise the preëmption right who is already the owner of 320 acres of land.
ref: 2004, John Wesley Powell, The Arid Lands, page 37:
text: “If you had two hundred dollars to pay on your preëmption you could borrow some.”
ref: 2005, Mari Sandoz, Old Jules, page 94:
text: The hope was to preëmpt the preëmption of laws like Orange County’s.
ref: 2022, Elizabeth Kolbert, A Lake in Florida Suing to Protect Itself, page 14:
glosses: Rare spelling of preemption.
Related terms: preëmpt
preëmptible
preëmptioner
preëmptive
preëmptively
preëmptor
preëmptory
wavefronts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wavefront
activation analyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of activation analysis
briskets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brisket
reduplicate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈd(j)uː.plɪ.kət/
ipa: /ɹɪˈd(j)uː.plɪˌkeɪt/
Forms: form: more reduplicate
form: most reduplicate
Etymology: From Medieval Latin reduplicātus, from reduplicāre, from re- with duplicāre.
Senses: glosses: doubled
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: valvate with the margins curved outwardly
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: folded, with the abaxial surfaces facing one another
reduplicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈd(j)uː.plɪ.kət/
ipa: /ɹɪˈd(j)uː.plɪˌkeɪt/
Forms: form: reduplicates
form: reduplicating
form: reduplicated
form: reduplicated
Etymology: From Medieval Latin reduplicātus, from reduplicāre, from re- with duplicāre.
Senses: glosses: To double again: to multiply: to repeat.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To repeat (a word or part of a word) in order to form a new word or phrase, possibly with modification of one of the repetitions.
Related terms: reduplication
mathematical games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mathematical game
reduplication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪ.djuː.plɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ɹəˌd(j)u.pləˈkeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ɹi-/
ipa: /ɹɪ-/
ipa: /-plɪ-/
ipa: /-ʃɪn/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: reduplications
Etymology: From re- + duplication.
Senses: examples: text: Her Malay was the Malay of the Staate of Lanchap [...] and she spoke it fierily, with crisp glottal checks, with much bubbling reduplication.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 256:
text: Grammatically, Malay uses reduplication for plurals (burung = bird, burung-burung = birds) and thus repeated words are commonly heard in Malay speech[.]
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 10:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The act of, or an instance of, reduplicating.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The folding or doubling of a part or organ.
Derived terms: endoreduplication
contrastive focus reduplication
connivances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of connivance
cutie pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cutie pie
reduplicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reduplicate
reduplicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reduplicate
reduplicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reduplicate
reduplications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reduplication
cloys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɔɪz/
rhymes: -ɔɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cloy
cloyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɔɪd/
rhymes: -ɔɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cloy
cloyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɔɪd/
rhymes: -ɔɪd
Senses: glosses: blocked up
Derived terms: uncloyed
preëmptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiːˈɛmp.tɪv/
Forms: form: more preëmptive
form: most preëmptive
Etymology: From preëmpt + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: The object of this company in taking their conveyance from the Indians in the form of a lease was to evade the preëmptive right.
ref: 1904, Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.), Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society, p289
text: 2002, The New Yorker Online Only, Conversation: The Next War, at this site
Once the doctrine of preëmptive war is out there, then, first India, clearly, but many other people, could say that this is ideal, thank you. All these conditions are met.
text: But this fails to meet the objection that if a considerable number of shareholders were thus compelled to go into the public market to buy enough shares to maintain their proportionate interest, they would probably have to pay an excessive price — a price at all events greater than would attach to the exercise of their preëmptive right.
ref: 2003, William Z. Ripley, Main Street and Wall Street 1929, page 43:
glosses: Rare spelling of preemptive.
Related terms: preëmpt
preëmptible
preëmption
preëmptioner
preëmptively
preëmptor
preëmptory
preëmptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preëmption
taphophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taphophiles
Etymology: Ancient Greek τάφος (táphos, “funeral rites”, “burial”, “funeral”, “wake”; “tomb”, “grave”); tapho- + -phile
Senses: glosses: A person who is interested in cemeteries, funerals and gravestones
Related terms: taphophilia
taphophilic
baglady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bagladies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bag lady.
preëmptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiːˈɛmptˌɔː/
ipa: /pɹiːˈɛmptˌɔɹ/
Forms: form: preëmptors
form: pre-emptor
form: preemptor
Etymology: From preëmpt + -or (suffix denoting an agent).
Senses: examples: text: If the preëmptor filed his claim one day or one week before he commenced his occupation, his claim, as against the railroad company, is fraudulent.
ref: 1873, D. C. Cloud, Monopolies and the People, page 179:
text: In spite of this, whenever there was no convenient machinery for determining who was the rightful preëmptor the land title remained unsettled.
ref: 1931, Theodore Christian Blegen et al., Minnesota History, page 85:
text: The municipal preëmptor, like the agricultural preëmptor, is required to take his land in conformity with “the legal subdivisions of the public lands”. I apprehend the import of the requirement is the same in both cases. Neither class of preëmptors is to break the legal subdivisions as surveyed. The preëmptor of either case may take fractional sections if he will, but he is in every case to run his extreme lines with the lines of the surveyed subdivisions.
ref: 1975, C. C. Andrews, Minnesota and Dacotah, page 214:
glosses: One who preëmpts.
Related terms: preëmpt
preëmptible
preëmption
preëmptioner
preëmptive
preëmptively
preëmptory
urban explorer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urban explorers
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Passer, the friend of Ms Timofeyeva, said that she could understand why “somebody who has never heard of urban explorers would be suspicious” when Russians armed with cameras and drones got caught sneaking into a military site.
ref: 2023 March 3, Andrew Higgins, “They Sneaked Into a Derelict Arms Plant: Instagrammers or Spies?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A person who explores restricted urban areas such as abandonments, tunnels, roofs, construction sites, etc. Certain non-urban sites can also count, such as mines, quarries, and grain/missile silos.
Hyponyms: rooftopper
Related terms: urbex
preëmptory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pɹiːˈɛmpt.əˌɹi/
Forms: form: more preëmptory
form: most preëmptory
form: pre-emptory
form: preemptory
Etymology: From preëmpt + -ory (adjectival suffix).
Senses: glosses: Serving to preëmpt.
glosses: Of, or relating to, a preëmptor.
Related terms: preëmpt
preëmptible
preëmption
preëmptioner
preëmptive
preëmptively
preëmptor
urban exploration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: While there are people living beneath Manhattan — most of them addicts or mentally ill — many of Toth's claims of thousands of people living in quasi-tribes have been cast into doubt by the urban exploration community.
ref: 2006, Geek Monthly, numbers 1-4, page 1980:
text: Urban exploration verges toward transgression without ever shattering it. Yet while urban exploration retains a purely inquisitive outlook, whereby exploration is conceived of in moralistic terms, its gradual reliance on a transgressive outlook is inevitable.
ref: 2006, Dylan Trigg, The Aesthetics of Decay: Nothingness, Nostalgia, and the Absence of Reason, page 191:
text: These counterpoints can't really be forced in an urban exploration setting, but keep your eye out for locations that offer them.
ref: 2014, Todd Sipes, Urban Exploration Photography, page 22:
glosses: The exploration of man-made, particularly urban, environments; such exploration in places which are not normally accessible or to which access is prohibited.
Synonyms: vadding
Derived terms: urbex
UX
Related terms: rooftopping
steam tunnel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steam tunnels
Senses: glosses: A tunnel which allows workers to maintain pipes which transport steam between a central boiler and buildings to be heated or cooled, usually in a campus setting.
explosimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: explosimeters
Senses: glosses: A device used for detecting explosive gases.
giardiasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɑː(ɹ)ˈdaɪəsɪs/
Forms: form: giardiases
Etymology: From giardia + -iasis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An infectious diarrheal disease in humans and mammals caused by the Giardia duodenalis parasite.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease in animals caused by parasites of the genus Giardia.
Synonyms: beaver fever
Derived terms: antigiardiasis
elevator surfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elevator surfers
Senses: glosses: A person who illegally rides on the top of an elevator car, outside the actual confines of the car.
Related terms: elevator surfing
elevator surfing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The practice of riding on the top of elevator cars, outside the actual confines of the car.
Synonyms: lift surfing
halligan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halligans
Etymology: Ellipsis of Halligan bar.
Senses: glosses: A tool, used mostly by firemen, to pry open buildings, manholes, wrecked cars, etc.
Synonyms: Halligan bar
Halligan tool
hooligan tool
Somdomite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Somdomites
Senses: examples: text: Somdomites and Revolutionaries
Oscar Wilde, the brilliant controversialist and playwright, […]
ref: 1999, Andrew Prescott, Elizabeth M. Hallam, the British Library, The British Inheritance: A Treasury of Historic Documents, page 12:
text: A. Posing as Somdomites: John Lawrence and Tyron Garner
Little is known publicly about the men whose arrest led to the most important gay civil rights decision in American history. According to the Houston attorney who handled their case at the trial court level, Mitchell Katine, "They're not out to be any more famous than they accidentally came to be."
ref: 2004, Michigan Law Review, volume 102, numbers 7-8, page 1476:
text: He evolved to connect the antifeminist ridicule of the New Woman to the growing backlash against male homosexuals, the Somdomites and inverts.
ref: 2013, Doug Kirshen, Six Weeks—The New Man and the London Theatre Season of 1895: Henry James, Henry Irving, Oscar Wilde (thesis at Brandeis University)
glosses: Misspelling of sodomite.
infall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnfɔːl/
Forms: form: infalls
Etymology: From in- + fall.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of falling in.
examples: 1650, Oliver Cromwell, a letter
we learn that Ker , with his Western Army , was lying at a place called Carmunnock , when he made this infall upon Lambert
glosses: An incursion; an inroad.
glosses: The area where water, storm runoff, etc., enters a storm drain.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Movement towards a massive astronomical body under the influence of gravity; especially the process whereby gas falls towards a neutron star or black hole at high speed, forming a plasma
infall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfɔːl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: infalls
form: infalling
form: infell
form: infallen
Etymology: From in- + fall.
Senses: glosses: To fall in.
examples: text: After this time the beam mass loss rate decreases since once the expansion wave radius is larger than the beam, material initially outside the beam starts to infall and compensate for material which is collapsing at centre of the core [...]
ref: 1997, Bo Reipurth, Claude Bertout, Herbig-Haro flows and the birth of low mass stars:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: To undergo infall.
Derived terms: infalling
outfall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtˌfɔl/
ipa: /ˈaʊtˌfɑl/
Forms: form: outfalls
form: outfalling
form: outfell
form: outfallen
Etymology: From Middle English outfallen, equivalent to out- + fall. Compare Dutch uitvallen (“to fall out, sally”), German ausfallen (“to fall out, lunge”), Swedish utfalla (“to fall out”).
Senses: glosses: To burst forth, as upon an enemy; make a sally.
outfall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtˌfɔl/
ipa: /ˈaʊtˌfɑl/
Forms: form: outfalls
Etymology: From out- + fall. Compare Dutch uitval (“outburst, sally, eruption”), German Ausfall (“falling out, sally”), Swedish utfall (“sally, issue”).
Senses: glosses: A sudden eruption of troops from a fortified place; sally.
glosses: A quarrel; a falling out.
examples: text: West of Keswick a short descent at 1 in 122 brings the train down to the low-lying and marshy ground between Derwentwater and Bassenthwaite Lake and to the crossing of the Derwent - the outfall from Derwentwater, [...].
ref: 1961 October, Voyageur, “The Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 601:
text: The rules focus primarily on two crucial operating features: seawater intakes and outfalls.
ref: 2014 October 18, Matt Weiser, “Could desalination solve California’s water problem?”, in The Sacramento Bee, retrieved 20150315:
glosses: The point or place of discharge of a river, drain, culvert, sewer, etc.; mouth; embouchure.
Derived terms: flapped outfall
outfall sewer
sea outfall
OPEX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OpEx
Senses: topics: business
finance
coordinate_terms: CAPEX
glosses: Acronym of operating expense or operating expenditure.
glosses: Initialism of operational executive.
OPEX
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: OpEx
Senses: glosses: The 1959 United Nations programme to provide Operational and Executive staff as part of aid to certain countries.
tunneling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tunnelings
form: tunnelling
Senses: glosses: The act of burrowing a tunnel.
glosses: The practice of exploring tunnel.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The quantum mechanical passing of a particle through an energy barrier.
topics: business
finance
glosses: A type of fraud where assets and profits are transferred out of firms for the benefit of those who control them.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Microsoft Windows
glosses: A feature of the file system that allows files to preserve certain properties, such as creation date, even after being deleted and recreated.
Derived terms: scanning tunneling microscope
tunneling time
tunneling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tunnelling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tunnel
sewering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sewerings
Etymology: From sewer + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Low bid for sewerings, submitted by Buckeye Engr. Co., Norwalk, Ohio.
ref: 1912, Contractor, volume 16, page 70:
glosses: The act of constructing or replacing a sewer system for a new development or neighborhood.
by the bye
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Well, remember, I insist on the terms of our agreement; and, by the bye, I believe I shall have occasion to try your obedience this very evening.
ref: 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer:
glosses: Alternative spelling of by the by.
gluten-free
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gluten + -free.
Senses: examples: 8 Jan 2020, Felicity Cloake in The Guardian, How to make the perfect gluten-free chocolate brownies – recipe
there are as many ways to make a brownie as there are ways to cover yourself in chocolate in the process, but the real difference between the gluten-free recipes are in what they replace the wheat with.
glosses: Containing no gluten.
raw_tags: of food
glosses: not eating gluten
raw_tags: of a person
Derived terms: gluten-free madness
coalbed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coalbeds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coal bed.
coal bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coal beds
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A coal seam.
coal seam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coal seams
Senses: examples: text: Alternatively, the N.C.B. agrees to pay a percentage of the cost of any repairs or preventive work that ensues from working the coal seam.
ref: 1961 November, “Talking of Trains: The subsidence problem”, in Trains Illustrated, page 651:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A stratum of coal between strata of other rocks.
Synonyms: coal bed
riverbed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪv.əˌbɛd/
enpr: rĭvʹər-bĕd'
ipa: /ˈɹɪv.ɚˌbɛd/
note: African-American Vernacular, some speakers
ipa: [ˈɹɪv.ɚˌbeː]
ipa: /ˈɹɪv.əˌbed/
Forms: form: riverbeds
form: river-bed
form: river bed
Etymology: From river + bed. Compare Dutch rivierbedding (“riverbed”), German Flussbett (“riverbed”), Swedish flodbädd (“riverbed”).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: streambed, creekbed
text: The Hang En tour involves a difficult daylong trek over limestone mountain paths and along riverbeds to the remote indigenous village of Ban Doong.
ref: 2014 October 31, David W. Lloyd, “Deep in Vietnam, Exploring a Colossal Cave”, in The New York Times:
text: Detailed laser surveys carried out by Network Rail revealed that fast-flowing water on the River Eden has caused parts of the riverbed to wash away, posing a risk to the viaduct foundations.
ref: 2021 September 8, “Network News: West Coast Main Line viaducts reinforced by underwater concrete”, in RAIL, number 939, page 10:
text: Potential signs of microbial life were found in a rock sample collected by the rover in 2024 from an ancient dry riverbed on Mars' Jezero Crater -- an area of rocky outcrops on the edges the Neretva Vallis, a river valley carved by water rushing to the canyon billions of years ago, NASA officials announced in a press conference on Wednesday.
ref: 2025 September 11, Matthew Glasser, Julia Jacobo, “Rock found on Mars could be evidence of ancient life, NASA says”, in ABC News:
topics: geography
hydrology
natural-sciences
hypernyms: bed
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site#Noun
place#Noun
location#Noun
coordinate_terms: lakebed#Noun
;
seabed#Noun
glosses: The path where a river runs, or where a river once ran; the bottom earthen part of a river, not including the riverbanks.
Synonyms: stream bed
Related terms: word: wadi
english: -bed
translation: -bed
word: Terms suffixed with : creekbed
word: lakebed
word: oceanbed
word: seabed
word: streambed
artesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹˈtiʒən/
ipa: /ɑːˈtiːʒən/
Etymology: From French puits artésien (“artesian well”), from the former province of Artois, where the technique of artesian wells was elaborated by monks in the 12th century.
Senses: glosses: Rising to the surface under its own hydrostatic pressure.
raw_tags: of a water supply
glosses: Misspelling of artisan.
Derived terms: artesian aquifer
artesian bore
artesian spring
artesian water
artesian well
nonartesian
artesian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹˈtiʒən/
ipa: /ɑːˈtiːʒən/
Etymology: From French puits artésien (“artesian well”), from the former province of Artois, where the technique of artesian wells was elaborated by monks in the 12th century.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, it was offering training to these artesians, governmental and non-governmental organizations in wood, carpet, weaving, pottery, metal, bamboo works for three and six months.
ref: 1997, Technical Report of the Sensitization Workshop on Culture, Gender & Development for Eastern & Southern African English Speaking Countries:
text: Whereas, the opposite view was associated with the petit bourgeoisie which represented the small-scale productive sector of poor peasants, small land-owners and tenants, artesians and owners of small workshops[…]
ref: 2022 April 25, El-Mehairy, Medical Doctors: A Study of Role Concept and Job Satisfaction. The Egyptian Case, BRILL, →ISBN, page 82:
glosses: Misspelling of artisan.
dewatering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dewater
dewatering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dewaterings
Senses: glosses: Any of various techniques for the removal of water, either from a solid or from a structure.
examples: text: As this went on, some of the pumps were activated, and the dewatering of the ship began. Apart from anything else, it was thought this might raise Nevada somewhat, reducing the workload for the clearance crews who were trying to get enough room for the big patch to fit underneath the ship.
ref: 2020 November 18, Drachinifel, 5:52 from the start, in The Salvage of Pearl Harbor Pt 2 - Up She Rises!, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2022:
glosses: An instance of the removal of water, typically from a structure.
terraform
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛɹəfɔː(ɹ)m/
Forms: form: terraforms
form: terraforming
form: terraformed
form: terraformed
Etymology: From Terra (“planet Earth”) + -form (“having the form of”). Coined by American science fiction author Jack Williamson in 1942 as part of his novella Collision Orbit.
Senses: examples: text: He had been the original claimant of Obania, forty years ago; and Drake was the young spatial engineer he employed to terraform the little rock, only two kilometers through—by sinking a shaft to its heart for the paragravity installation, generating oxygen and water from mineral oxides, releasing absorptive gases to trap the feeble heat of the far-off Sun.
ref: 1942 July, Jack Williamson, “Collision Orbit”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume 29, number 5, page 82:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
synonyms: Earthscape
glosses: To transform the atmosphere (or biosphere) of another planet into one having the characteristics of Earth.
Derived terms: terraformer
sketchiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sketchy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being sketchy.
unremarkable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˌʌn.ɹɪˈmɑː.kə.bl̩]
ipa: [ˌʌn.ɹɪˈmɑɹ.kə.bl̩]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kəbəl
Forms: form: more unremarkable
form: most unremarkable
Etymology: From un- + remarkable.
Senses: examples: text: The temptation is to regard him [John Ogdon] as an idiot savant, a big talent bottled inside a recalcitrant body and accompanied by a personality that seems not just unremarkable, but almost entirely blank.
ref: 2014 May 11, Ivan Hewett, “Piano Man: a Life of John Ogdon by Charles Beauclerk, review: A new biography of the great British pianist whose own genius destroyed him [print version: A colossus off-key, 10 May 2014, p. R27]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):
text: Delivered to British Railways' Royston depot (near Barnsley) as D3378 in August 1957, the '08e' prototype led an unremarkable life for its first 35 years, working from Farnley Junction, Healey Mills and Holbeck before being withdrawn (for the first time) from Sheffield's Tinsley depot in February 1992.
ref: 2023 October 4, Ben Jones, “'08e' sparks new life into trusty shunters”, in RAIL, number 993, page 48:
synonyms: nondescript
commonplace
jejune
mundane
ordinary
glosses: Not remarkable.
misaligned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnd
Senses: glosses: Out of alignment.
misaligned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misalign
pixelation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪksəˈleɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: pixelations
form: pixellation
Etymology: From pixel + -ation.
Senses: glosses: A blocky effect caused by enlarging a bitmap so that individual pixels can be distinguished.
glosses: The deliberate obscuring or censoring of part of an image by reducing the resolution, resulting in a blocky blur.
Derived terms: pixelation ratio
Related terms: pixelisation
pixelization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pixelizations
form: pixelisation
Etymology: From pixel + -ization.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The result of enlarging a digital image further than the resolution of the monitor device, usually 72 dpi (dots per inch), causing the individual pixels making up the image to become more prominent, thus causing a grainy appearance in the image.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: mosaic
glosses: The blurring of part of an image by setting groups of pixels that are close to each other to the same color.
Derived terms: superpixelization
Related terms: pixelation
pixelisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pixel + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pixelization.
mother of pearl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mother of pearls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mother-of-pearl.
driving axle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: driving axles
form: drive axle
Senses: examples: text: And what about the cracked driving axles that took a number of the Southern "Merchant Navy" Pacifics out of action and brought various borrowed strangers on to Southern metals, such as V2 2-6-2s from the Eastern Region?
ref: 1961 March, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 154:
glosses: An axle which transfers power to a powered wheel from an engine, as in a steam locomotive.
boot verb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boot verbs
Etymology: So called because these verbs form a boot-like shape when highlighted in a conjugation table.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Any of various verbs, generally in Romance languages, in which the first and second persons plural are affected differently by some phonological or morphological rule than the other four forms.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A verb in Italian so affected in the second and third persons singular.
Synonyms: shoe verb
stem-changing verb
dichotomous key
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dichotomous keys
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A written tool for identification of plants and animals. It is written as a sequence of paired questions, the choice of which determines the next pair of questions until a name or identification is reached.
Synonyms: identification key
Related terms: couplet
field guide
dichotomous keys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dichotomous key
kotatsu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kotatsu
form: kotatsus
Etymology: From Japanese 炬燵 (kotatsu).
Senses: examples: text: I dreamed my way through cold winters with my family at the kotatsu, with my friends at their kotatsus, huddled under my futon alone in the cold nights.
ref: 2012 summer, Ed Wright, “Fiction: An end to hope”, in Julianne Schultz, editor, The Novella Project (GriffithREVIEW; 38), Melbourne, Vic.: Text Publishing, →ISBN, section 1, pages 149–150:
glosses: A knee-high table with a heater inside which is used with a coverlet during winter.
moon language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Text written in an incomprehensible script, especially Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, or Hindi.
Related terms: moonspeak
moonrunes
shinigami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌʃɪn.ɪˈɡɑːmi/
Forms: form: shinigami
Etymology: Borrowing from Japanese 死に神 (shinigami).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A deity and/or personification of death.
gulosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: g(y)ü-'lä-sə-tē
Etymology: From Late Latin gulōsitātem, from gulōsus (“gluttonous”).
Senses: examples: text: [T]he 206th number of his Rambler is a masterly essay against gulosity.
ref: 1791, James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 331:
synonyms: greediness
voracity
gluttony
glosses: Excessive appetite; greed, gluttony.
Related terms: gullet
blunderous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blunderous
form: most blunderous
Etymology: From blunder + -ous.
Senses: synonyms: blunderful
blundersome
blundery
glosses: Prone to make blunders.
Derived terms: blunderously
Freeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹipɚ/
rhymes: -iːpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Freepers
Etymology: Contraction of Free Republic + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Hearsay even got "freeped." "Freepers," followers of a rightist Web site called Free Republic, orchestrated a "Freeper Call to Action."
ref: 2000 February 28, James V. Grimaldi, “Hearsay: The Lawyer's Column; Keeping Up With the Gundersons”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: A person who frequents Free Republic, a right-wing website and forum.
glosses: Any person, especially a US citizen, who puts forth right-wing ideals.
psychon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychons
Etymology: From psycho- + -on.
Senses: examples: text: Thirty years later, in his book How the Self Controls Its Brain (Springer Verlag, 1994), [John] Eccles posited that the “mind” produces “psychons” (i.e., fundamental units of consciousness, a term previously mostly used in cheesy science fiction) […]
ref: 2023, Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: A hypothetical unit of consciousness.
Derived terms: psychonic